The Super Eagles have been
without a substantive coach since Sunday Oliseh resigned and according to Green
a lot of applications have been received for the vacant post.
The Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) will unveil a new coach for the Super Eagles in July, it has
been revealed.
Chris Green, the NFF
Technical and Development Committee chairman, has given firm assurances that
they would make sure that all the issues around naming a new manager for the
Super Eagles were sorted unfailingly by next month.
“We have submitted our recommendation to the
NFF executive board members after receiving a lot of applications from coaches
who have shown interest in the job,” Green revealed.
At the moment, Salisu Yusuf
has been in charge of the Eagles in interim capacity with the duo of Rangers
coach, Imama Amapakabo, and Abia Warriors manager, Kennedy Boboye, assisting.
Super Eagles are in a tough
group for Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers together with Zambia’s Chipolopolo,
Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions and Algeria’s Desert Foxes.
Meanwhile, while the
federal government might have foreclosed the hope of hiring a foreign coach, the
leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation is at only at cross purposes on
who to appoint, but bent on hiring a foreigner.
This is because Amaju
Pinnick, NFF President, favours the appointment of Serbian’s Goran Stefanovic,
while the Technical Committee headed by Chris Green wants Frenchman, Paul Le
Guen.
Pinnick is keen on the
Serb’s abilities due to his wealth of experience especially in Africa and
affordability in comparison to other coaches who will demand higher wages.
However members of the
Technical Committee are convinced that Le Guen is the most qualified for the
job based on his pedigree and heroics with Cameroun in the run up to the 2010
World Cup where he qualified them from an almost impossible situation after
taking over the job midway through the qualifiers.
The committee members
believe that Le Guen has the pedigree that will naturally command respect from
players of the Super Eagles which will help bring the much needed sanity and
discipline the football house is trying to instill in the senior national team.
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