4:32:00 AM
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) says it will
announce the appointment of a Technical Adviser
for the Super Eagles in August.
Chris Green, Chairman of the NFF Technical and
Development Committee revealed this in an
interview.
The NFF Executive Committee had given the
committee seven days within which to name a
Technical Adviser for the senior national team
following the federation’s failure to obtain
Frenchman Paul Le Guen’s signature as coach of
the team.
“We are working to ensure that we finish with the
other incidentals, because as at the last time we
didn’t do that.
“We left it for the executive to do, which ordinarily
should be their responsibility.
“But when they now asked us to go and do it
again, they now told us to complete everything
with the incidentals and send recommendations.
“It’s based on that that we are doing this now;
we don’t want a situation where somebody will
come out again and say this and that.
“As I speak with you, we have made contacts, we
have done interviews, we have asked questions
and the rest of them – even verifying from every
other person.
“We have considered at a lot of people, but we
have zeroed in on one person.
“It may not be from the former list; it’s a different
exercise entirely, because as I speak to you, even
when we have closed entries, some people are
still applying,’’ he said.
Green told NAN that though the deadline given to
the committee by the NFF Board to name Le
Guen’s replacement elapsed on July 27, efforts
were on to ensure it does not exceed August.
“We have spread our dragnet by considering the
once that applied now and it will be announced to
Nigerians by next month; So, I think we are on
course,’’ he said.
NFF subsequently named Salisu Yusuf as the new
Super Eagles Head Coach.
The NFF Executive Committee had claimed it
rejected the recommendation of its technical
committee for Le Guen to be appointed the Super
Eagles Technical Adviser, hence the appointment
of Yusuf.
Coach of Rangers Int’l FC Enugu, Imama
Amakapabo, was picked as Yusuf’s Assistant,
while Alloy Agu was retained as the team’s
Goalkeepers’ Trainer.
