The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reconstituted the technical crew of the Super Eagles with Augustine Equavoen as Interim Technical Adviser.
This is contained in a statement on Monday issued by the NFF General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi
Other members of the team are Emmanuel Amuneke as Chief Coach and Equavoen’s assistant. Salisu Yusuf will be 2nd assistant coach and chief coach of Chan team andJoseph Yobo is 3rd assistant coach while Alloysius Agu remains the goalkeepers’ trainer.
The development brings to an end negotiations with Portuguese Coach, Jose Peseiro, to take over the Super Eagles job from Gernot who was sacked on December 13,2021 .
Eguavoen ,an ex- international led the Nigerian National team ( Super Eagles) to the just concluded 33 edition of AFCON in Cameroon where it emerged the best team in the group stage,winning all its three matches before it was sent home by Tunisia at the Round of 16.
By the reconstitution ,the NFF has also strengthened the technical bench ahead of next month’s 2022 World Cup playoff against the Black Stars of Ghana.
“The NFF Board has approved a recommendation of the Technical and Development Committee retaining Augustine Eguavoen as Technical Director/Technical Adviser (interim) while Emmanuel Amuneke becomes the Chief Coach of the Super Eagles. Salisu Yusuf will be the 2nd Assistant Coach/Chief Coach of the CHAN team and Joseph Yobo will be 3rd Assistant while Aloysius Agu remains the Goalkeepers’ Trainer,”
“We acknowledge and appreciate the interest that Mr Jose Peseiro has shown in Nigeria Football during our very cordial discussions and have absolutely no doubt about his capacity. We believe that perhaps in the future, there could be an opportunity to work with him. However, in view of the positive performance of the Super Eagles at the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations which has given hope to Nigerians and boosted our confidence in the present coaching crew to qualify us for the World Cup in Qatar, we have decided to accept the recommendation of the Technical and Development Committee to retain the Eguavoen-led coaching crew and strengthen it with the addition of Emmanuel Amuneke.” Sanusi added.
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