Apparently swayed by the pressure to rely on an indigenous coaching crew for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, which was buoyed by Senegal lifting the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) with former international Aliou Cisse, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), on Monday announced the retention of Austin Eguavoen as the head of the coaching crew of the nation’s senior football team.
The decision effectively put paid to plans to hire Portuguese Jose Peseiro as a replacement for Garnet Rohr, who was sacked on the heals of Nigeria’s participation at AFCON with Eguavoen leading the team to the tournament, which ended on Sunday.
It was the football authorities in Nigeria, also named ex-international, Emmanuel Amuneke as the Chief Coach to assist Eguavoen, who saw the Super Eagles qualify at the group stage with maximum points of 9, and earned the best coach of the tournament at that stage, before the team was eliminated at the first match in the knockout stage by Tunisia.
Regardless, the NFF said it was impressed by his performance, in a statement, by NFF General Secretary Mohammed Sanusi, which reads: “The NFF Board has approved a recommendation of the Technical and Development Committee retaining Augustine Eguavoen as Technical Director/Technical Adviser (interim) while Emmanuel Amuneke becomes the Chief Coach of the Super Eagles.
“Salisu Yusuf will be the 2nd Assistant Coach/Chief Coach of the CHAN team and Joseph Yobo will be 3rd Assistant while Aloysius Agu remains the Goalkeepers’ Trainer.”
“We acknowledge and appreciate the interest that Mr Jose Peseiro has shown in Nigeria Football during our very cordial discussions and have absolutely no doubt about his capacity. We believe that perhaps in the future, there could be an opportunity to work with him.
“However, in view of the positive performance of the Super Eagles at the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations which has given hope to Nigerians and boosted our confidence in the present coaching crew to qualify us for the World Cup in Qatar, we have decided to accept the recommendation of the Technical and Development Committee to retain the Eguavoen-led coaching crew and strengthen it with the addition of Emmanuel Amuneke.”
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