The technical committee of the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) will meet to determine on a brand new coach for the senior nationwide group of Nigeria within the first week of subsequent 12 months identical to we completely reported one month in the past.
Tremendous Eagles navigated the AFCON qualifiers with the Technical Director (TD) of the soccer home Austine Eguavoen in interim capability as coach of the group. He’s anticipated to revert to his fundamental function after serving to the group to qualification for the AFCON.
Eguavoen is anticipated to play an enormous function within the seek for a substantive coach for the group, anticipated to be introduced earlier than the resumption of the qualifiers for the 2026 world cup.
Nevertheless whereas he has made it clear that he’ll want an indigenous coach with a big backroom workers, the NFF are against the concept with president Ibrahim Musa Gusau already neck deep in talks with potential sponsors who will foot the invoice of a overseas coach.
“We must always keep at house (for alternative of head coach), however the technical crew needs to be enlarged. The top coach ought to be home-grown as a result of we all know the state of affairs and we really feel the heartbeat of the individuals”, he stated in a Christmas eve interview aired on Kennis Radio.
His take is in sharp distinction with the concept of Gusau who was clear concerning the id of the proposed coach of the group, saying talks are already on to kind out the fee of a brand new coach for the group to deliver to an finish the battle to pay the month-to-month due of overseas coaches by the NFF prior to now.
“We’re presently in dialogue with Dangote Group, BUA, MTN, Baba Ijebu and others on the fee of overseas coach,” Gusau stated.
“Although, Eguavoen is doing effectively, but when we should have interaction a coach, we should be sure that the problem of fee is sorted.”
Ade Emmanuel
