The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced that the head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro has agreed to continue in his role as the coach of the team as exclusively reported by OwnGoalNigeria.com four days ago.
Peseiro’s new deal will see him earn $10,000 less than what he was earning in his previous deal, meaning he will now earn $60,000. An amount which the NFF hopes to meet without stress and also offset his outstanding salary.
He is currently owed seven months of unpaid wages and has been told he will be paid in installments. Aside from that his match allowance was also slashed to a manageable amount.
The Portuguese coach now has a six month deal as opposed to his first contract which ran for one year. This time around he has been handed a mandate of at least getting to the semi final of the next Africa Cup of Nations to automatically trigger a new two years deal.
In his previous deal before the postponement of the AFCON, he was given a mandate of at least getting to the final of the tournament to earn a new two year deal. His new deal will run out in February but will automatically renew when he gets to the semi final of the next AFCON in Cote d’Ivoire.
Furthermore, he has been asked to prune down his number of foreign assistants from four at the moment to just three even though he pays them from his salary. The NFF however bears the cost of flying them for engagements and also other logistics, which they said is stretching their finances.
Henceforth he will also be saddled with the responsibility of handling the home based team of Nigeria, after getting his wish to remove the clause that says he should call at least three local players in his squad for games.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
