The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has finally settled for an indigenous tactician to succeed Jose Peseiro as head coach of the Super Eagles, reports Completesports.com.
According to a reliable source, the executive committee of the NFF and technical committee met on Sunday to deliberate on the vacant Super Eagles coaching position.
They both agreed to appoint a local coach for the team.
According to the source, the NFF is expected to unveil the new coach this week.
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Former handler of the team, Jose Peseiro left the position following the expiration of his contract at the end of February.
The Portuguese guided the West Africans to second position at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire.
His former assistant, Finidi George took charge of the team for the friendlies against Ghana and Mali last month.
The Super Eagles are scheduled to take on South Africa and Benin Republic in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in June.
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Hahahahahahaha! Una nor serious!
Yeye federation! every tom dick along with harry predicted what you would do and tabulated the corruption ridden reason for why you would do so a good few months ago and now you have come out after awaking from your eba and egusi with assorted meat slumber, which you washed down with “Lanko” to do the exact same thing fa? –
Chaii! What shamelessness abi na shamefulness ni kpaa kpa!, ridiculing the name of a whole nation and it’s poor suffering peoples!
Nigeria is suffering! Kai!
We should just kiss naija football and worldcup goodbyr
You are right General Pawpaw. This NFF is useless. Only the gods can save us.
NFF SHOULD EMPLOY A COACH THAT IS HIGHLY TECHNICAL & BE RESPECTED BY PLAYERS.
THE REASON WHY SOME EX-PLAYERS AND SOME PRESENT SUPER EAGLE PLAYERS ARE IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS COACH(especially Finidi) IS BECAUSE THAT, IT WILL BE VERY EASY FOR THEM TO PENETRATE IN HIM, CONTROLLING HIM & DICTATING TO HIM WHEN IT COMES TO PLAYERS SELECTION, WHICH IT CANNOT BE POSSIBLE ON FOREIGN COACH. ALSO, IT WILL BE VERY EASY TO DO BUSINESS BY INTRODUCING PLAYERS TO INDIGENOUS COACH AFTER COLLECTING BRIBE FROM SUCH BE PLAYERS.
** NOTE: We should not be deceiving ourselves in this country because of the way things work for other countries (e.g. Democracy work well in America, S/Africa, Ghana but it doesn’t work well in Nigeria).
THE WAY THINGS WORK FOR COACH H. SHEHATA(EGYPT), COACH ALIOU CISSE(SENEGAL) BY WINNING AFCON FOR THEIR COUNTY (and also qualified for next AFCON easily) MAY NOT WORK IN NIGERIA DUE TO CORRUPTION, IMPROPER PLANNING, LACK OF STRUCTURES, BAD MANAGEMENT.
IN NIGERIA, WE ARE TOO RELIGIONISTIC, REGIONISTIC, TRIBALISTIC & SENTIMENTAL.
EVEN when Keshi won AFCON in 2013, he failed woefully to qualified for next AFCON due to bad management(Pinnick VS Giwa), sentiment, jealous, hatred towards some players (e.g. Yobo, I.K. uche, V.moses).
**** NFF SHOULD GO FOR THE BEST COACH.***
What matters most is to move our football forward & not celebrating FLUKE WINNING again. We struggle/manage to beat CIV by penalty in group stage. But E/guinea beat CIV 4-0 convincingly.
*** KESHI WON AFCON IN 2013, BUT WE CANNOT BOAST OF PLAYERS, THE TEAM FOR THE FUTURE (for instance: Sunday MBA, Uzoenyi, Oshaniwa, Agbim are nowhere to be found in future football). AND NIGERIA FAILED TO QUALIFIED FOR NEXT TWO CONSECUTIVE AFCON.
WHAT A SHAME!!!!
**** WESTERHOF WIN AFCON IN 1994, BUT NIGERIA CAN BOAST OF FUTURE FOOTBALL (for instance: Oliseh, Okocha, Amokachi, Amuneke shine for future football).
WHAT A BRIGHTER FUTURE!!!!!
### NFF SHOULD EMPLOY A GOOD DISCIPLINE, TACTICAL, HIGHLY RESPECTED COACH ###
whatever they do, all we want is success, but if it this political decision goes wrong,the decision makers must be ready to take full responsibilities by resigning, because the SE must qualify for world cup and AFCON
While lovers of the game are advised to support whoever is appointed as the head coach and the team, it is better to take a dog approach of sit-down-look
It’s Amunike, Finidi, Amokachi, Essien, and Amadi (goalkeeper trainer).
This is a massive gamble.
But, Eguavoen did succeed in getting the Super Eagles to play an attractive brand of football. What was missing was tangible success.
Now, should this story prove true, will this new indigenous coach be able to use attractive football to gain tangible success?
I will support any coach hired and give him my wholehearted support. I just hope the new coach will be able to invent a winning strategy and crucially assemble players who will buy into his philosophy.
As we sadly saw under Rohr, Eguavoen and Peseiro: getting the Super Eagles to play an attractive brand of football that blows away the opposition and leave opposition fans weeping with envy is tough and near impossible to achieve.
These are often stubborn players who are hastily assembled and often proved to be able to be curtailed by even the Central Africa Republic, Sierra Leone and Cape Verdes of this world.
This new indigenous coach has a mammoth task on his hands. There will be millions of foreing-coach leaning fans to placate; hundreds of stakeholders to win over; and very many influential players to bring on-side.
It is not a job for the faint-hearted.
Well, I am waiting to congratulate the successful candidate – there is much to be done. Coaching the Super Eagles under this climate will almost be like trying to run up a down escalator.
But, run up the successful candidate must.
Why should d poor masses be d ones suffering or having heartache? So all the money dem dey steal, dey can’t even afford a good coach ,chai Nigeria which way. One state alone in Naija can pay a good coach in dis country. Anyway guys let’s get our panadol and paracetamol bcs wahala don start.
Even if dey can ask effcc to use the balance from our state from American school to pay the foreign coach we go stil get small im remaining
We’ve seen this script played out before and there can be any surprises.
This year alone, over $7 million dollars will be received by the nff. So, the nff can’t afford a foreign coach is a story for the fools.
The crooked nff and the sports ministry are the #1 public enemies who only care about their corrupt mindsets.
To be continued……
Emmanuel Amunike or nobody else. He’s the most we can afford now, anything less will be a disaster. Two crucial world cup qualifiers in June will need a coach with experience and indepth knowledge of the game. Add Finidi George to him as an assistant.
As much as this will disappoint me, I can only wish whoever they appoint well. They will surely get my support.
..and off course, my criticism when necessary.
Any indigenous coach employed will automatically spell doom for Nigeria. Not because any of the local coach is nit good but because NFF will want to prove to Sport Ministry that he can’t dictate to them .NFF will frustrate the coming local coach and the set up will be orchestrated for him to fail and fail woefully just for them to prove a point.
Nigeria will likely not be in the world cup.
My take is that the sport minister should allow whoever the nff wants to appoint as the coach of the super eagles.
Dear Martin but @TheNFF can not consistently pay a foreign coach so they’ve gone for what they can afford. Also until the news is broken before I believe any report, for now it is all rumours and distractions. The only sad thing is that people have come to believe that all local coaches are corrupt after we will start crying when we are treated as corrupt by the western world when we know that not all Nigerians are corrupt or criminals. Let us know that same judgment should be used for local coaches until deemed necessary to judge them like the ones who will not only Invite but also make a Yum Yum Fc player captain over a more reliable Benjamin Fredicks.
”The sun shall not smite thee by day, Nor the moon by night.“
Every tongue that rise negatively against God fearing local coaches will eat the fruit of their confession.
Going for what they can afford is what is stunting our development in the game. Its whats making us settle for either a foreign coach who’s a mediocre or the local one who they can easily manipulate to further their greedy agenda. It’s a pity that they’ve made us eat what we see and not what we want. Let’s even say we qualified for the WC by any chance. How far can an indigenous coach take us with all these battle tested veteran tacticians we will come against at the Mundial? I can only keep my fingers crossed.
Amuneke kee!! Why Amuneke? Shame of the highest order on the minister and the NFF…. period!!!
The NFF should appointment whoever they they deem fit. HOWEVER, my fear about appointing a local coach is that such a coach would likely be under pressure to invite players who have influential “godfathers” and agents, etc.
Let us wait and see
Keep ya BP meds handy.
It’s gonna be a rough, tension-soaked June.
Make God no allow NFF kill us.
NFF and Sports ministry we are waiting. If we qualify for the World Cup, that would be great. However let us understand that the road to failure is being mapped out already. We can’t for once appoint a coach for the Super Eagles without our regular shenanigans. Quite unfortunate. A big shame.
NFF failed Nigerians with all the options made available that is why I will advocate for any local coach btw Amuneke or even Finidi because these two will give the same results just as those foreign coaches shortlisted. A good NFF would have gone for personalities like Herve Renard and co instead of friends of Pep or whatever that never achieve anything reasonable at a better environment talkless of making it in Nigeria that has substandard coaching facilities and resources. These average foreign coaches will only have enough excuses to fail. I don’t believe anyone loves Nigeria than some of us but it’s just that they don’t want to see what we are seeing.