President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Pinnick says the appointment of Emmanuel Amuneke as one of the Super Eagles coaches is to aid the job of Austine Eguavoen, who still remains the head of the technical crew.
Yesterday, the NFF announced the ex Nigeria U17 and U20 coach as one of the coaches of the senior national team of Nigeria as first reported by this portal one week ago. He takes the role of Salisu Yusuf.
Yusuf still remains as part of the crew but he will now drop to the role of second assistant and also handle the home base team famously called CHAN Eagles. Joseph Yobo keeps his role as third assistant.
Alloy Agu still retains his role as goalkepper’s coach but Paul Aigbogun and Dr Terry Eguaoje who were both of part of the crew to the AFCON were returned back to their previous role in the NFF set up.
Explaining the new set up, Pinnick said the idea is to help Eguavoen with some technical aid despite the fact that the team did well at the AFCON, where they crashed out at the round of 16.
“Eguavoen did well and he provided good leadership in the team. He gave the team freedom to express themselves, but trust me there can be more to it in terms of the way we want to win”, he said.
“Generally, I commended him for what he did with the team. He took the job at short notice and he was able to deliver. He won three games convincingly. The only team in the tournament to do that in the first round.
“The team we defeated in the first round, Egypt, reached the final. What we need to do now is to just inject some kind of technical sagacity to the team.”
