The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has decided to retain Austine Eguavoen as the substantive coach of the senior national team of Nigeria on a short term deal which will likely be a two year deal if he qualifies Nigeria for the World Cup, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Eguavoen won the hearts of decision makers at the NFF with the way the team played at the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) despite the fact that they were knocked out of the tournament after losing 0-1 to Tunisia in the round of 16.
NFF believe the result was badly affected by the red card shown to Alex Iwobi hence won’t judge the coach on the defeat and with time not on their side as the World Cup playoff against Ghana in March draws near, Eguavoen has been told to continue as coach.
It means Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro who was announced as coach won’t be handling the team again with sources close to the NFF saying he isn’t an option for now, which is why he wasn’t in Cameroon to monitor the team as said in the statement announcing his appointment as coach.
We gathered the NFF could beef up the technical crew of the Super Eagles with two indigenous coaches to work as assistant to Eguavoen for the World Cup qualifiers playoff against Ghana in March.
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