Erstwhile head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Emmanuel Amuneke has sounded a note of warning to new Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro.
Peseiro was announced as the new head coach of the team by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) seeing off competition from the trio of Ernesto Valverde, Philip Cocu and Laurent Blanc.
Amuneke who was the head coach under the interim technical adviser Austine Eguavoen during the ill fated World Cup qualifiers playoff against Ghana has already point out the missing link in the Super Eagles team.
Speaking after the failure to beat Ghana in the world cup qualifiers playoff, the former Nigeria U17 and U20 coach said the team has good players but still lack a good passer of the ball in the midfield.
“The head coach (Austin Eguavoen) was in charge of the team and he decided what system and which players fitted into the system. My job was to provide technical assistance, which I did throughout the games in Accra and Abuja. It’s now left to who is in charge to take it or leave it”, he told Punch.
“We have good players in the team in all departments but the team still needs a good passer of the ball from midfield. A player that can create space from our own half with just a pass from quick movements will be the final piece in the Eagles’ jigsaw”.