Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Jose Peseiro says he is in talks with a new goalkeeper who will keep goal for the senior national team of Nigeria at next year Africa Cup of Nations.
The goalkeeping department of the Nigerian team has been the most talked about area in the build up to the AFCON with present first choice goalkeeper Francis Uzoho guilty of making costly errors.
Peseiro has always backed the Omonia Nicosia shot stopper but following pressure on him to explore other options in goal, the Portuguese confirmed that he has opened talks with a goalkeeper who will help ease the problem in goal.
He made this known during an interactive session with the minister of sports Senator John Enoh and the hierarchy of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), citing the new goalkeeper as a good addition towards their aim of winning the tournament next year.
The coach explained that dropping Uzoho at the time many wanted him to do so would have put whoever takes over as first choice under immense pressure, but the AFCON will give him enough time to address the situation.
His present deal with the NFF will expire at the end of next year’s AFCON, but it will be extended if the team makes it all the way to the final of the tournament in Cote d’Ivoire in January.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
