NFF Restrategises, Shops For Frenchman As New Eagles Coach

Paul Le Guen

TECHNICAL and Development Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has nominated a Frenchman, Paul Le Guen as the new Super Eagles head coach, however subject to agreement on personal terms. 

Addressing newsmen in Abuja today, a member of the technical committee, Paul Bassey said Le Guen is to be assisted by Salisu Yusuf and Imama Amapakabo.

However, President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick on Monday reassured of the commitment of the organisation to actualise its dream of having the country qualify for the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup adding that the decision to get a quality coach was arrived at following the failure of the national to qualify for the 2017 African Cup of Nations (AFCON)..

Pinnick also revealed his board has already struck a deal that will take care of remunerations of the five coaches towards preventing delays which hitherto had negative impact adding that with these mechanisms in place, the national team is reinvigorated to deliver excellent results as expected.

“We want to avoid as much as possible the perceived mistakes that made us to miss out of the AFCON 2017. To ensure that we brought the best coach that can qualify us for the World Cup, the first thing we did was to ensure we got a partner that will pay the fees of all the coaches. We sent a request of about five coaches and that was granted and the company requested we should keep every other thing under wraps for now.

“After the last AFCON ouster, we started thinking of Russia ad we are making efforts to pay all the coaches so that they will give their best at all times. Truly we are very desirous of qualifying for the 2018 world cup”, Pinnick said.