Super Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro arrived Ilorin on Saturday ahead of the Nigeria Professional Football League matchday 34 encounter between hosts Kwara United and Sunshine Stars, Completesports.com reports.
Peseiro will be among the spectators at the game billed to hold at the Kwara Sports Complex, Ilorin on Sunday.
Portuguese and one of his assistants were received on arrival in Ilorin by Kwara United chairman, Kumbi Titiloye.
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The Portuguese will be keen to discover quality players in the NPFL that will help bolster his squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers and future assignments.
Eight local-based players were named in Peseiro’s maiden squad for the international friendlies against Mexico and Ecuador.
Sani Faisal, Victor Mbaoma, Ishaq Kayode and Chiamaka Madu all featured in the two friendlies.
Only Faisal, who plays for Katsina United and Akwa United’s goalkeeper, Adewale Adeyinka were retained for the AFCON 2023 qualifiers against Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.
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Kwara United and Sunshine Stars are in the hunt for third position in the NPFL, which guarantee a place in next season’s CAF Confederation Cup.
The home team occupy sixth position with 49 points, while Sunshine Stars are in seventh position with 48 points.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Nice move coachie
I pray make Mosquito no knack am Dia oooo
Let us pray he will not be kidnapped. Monitoring NPFL matches these days of insecurity as a SE coach is extremely dangerous. My hand no dey. God keep you as you take the coach to our fantastically ‘corrupt’ pitches.
Up coachie, more of this.
A good challenge for the home base.
There is something WESTERHOFF-ESQUE about Peseiro.
A man on a mission.
Early days yet, but it’s looking like NFF made a good decision in hiring this man, so I will give them credit for that.
A bag of dry roast peanuts for you my brother. Well said
Can you please make it spicy, lol.
I like em spicy.
Have a great weekend, brother.
Na so u dey share my peanuts up and dowm. Dia is god o. Dr dry dey on coma thats why we have excess. Continue to dey feed them
Which of the home base players can bench or replaced Moses Simon and produce same output like him, what of bassi, osime, iwobi, Ajay, ola, Daniel, moffi, musa, chukwueze, aribo, ndidi, ebuchi, lookman and others. The national team is not a place to build rather is meant for the best. Some persons keep on saying 1994 squad, how many were home base. Yekini, amokachi, oliseh, okocha, uche, and 95% were never home based. Home base players that find it difficult to win away match against tough Africa are the ones that will qualify us to a competitative tournament. They have CHAN, let them prove themselves there first
When are these idiots going to do the right thing by focusing on and implementing things that will develop, impact, improve, market, bring exposure add value to the league instead of trying to mandate/force the coach to include the domestic league players in his team and to pick them for the Eagles Nation’s cup matches when the same players can’t even win CHAN matches against their counterparts from other African countries.
That is really insane. Could this NFF and LMC explain to Nigeria and Nigerians the reason behind Supersport withdrawal from the TV broadcast right deal they signed with NFF/LMC !!!
Who will invest in Chaos? Maladministration, lack of organization, playing two league games a week for a whole season. Kidnappings, curfews, bad roads, insecurity etc. Supersport is a brand and cannot be associated with a dis organized country like Nigeria.
Peseiro should search our academies since home based professionals are mandatory in his contract.
I believe our best indigenous and genuinely young players are in the academies.
However,the manager stated our best players are outside the country but he it’s like he is mandated to include indigenous players in his plans,the senior national team should be for the best players available and the local league is not where our best players are.