The Minister of Youths and Sports Sunday Dare has put on hold plans by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to immediately engage Jose Peseiro as the new head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria.
Peseiro is the favourite for the vacant job and he has already agreed a deal with conditions that have all been accepted by both parties. He is expected to resume next month in official capacity.
However, that plan appears to have suffered a delay as the minister isn’t impressed that the NFF hierarchy settled for the Portuguese without giving the other coaches shortlisted for the job the chance to stake a claim.
In a letter of advice sent to the NFF in reply to their letter of recommendation on Jose Peseiro as the new coach, the minister said the trio of Philip Cocu, Laurent Blanc and Ernesto Valverde should be engaged in contract talks before a decision is taken.
He feels even though Peseiro isn’t a bad coach he can’t be said to be the best among the quartet jostling for the job, hence he has advised the NFF to ensure that a thorough job is done and it involves extended talks to other interested candidates.
