AFCON Qualifier: Eguavoen to lead Super Eagles again
By Jacob Ajom

One week from today, the Super Eagles will host Sao Tome and Principe in Uyo for the last group match of the AFCON 2023 qualifier. Even as the Super Eagles have already qualified for the tournament, there were fears over who would handle the team as Nigeria has no coach.

The contract with Portuguese coach, Jose Peseiro has since expired and talks between the NFF and the coach have been deadlocked as both parties have failed to agree on financial terms. While the NFF are insisting on a pay cut as a condition for renewal of the contract, Peseiro would have none of that. He is bent on his 70,000 dollars a month salary, a sum the NFF has turned down.

With no headway in sight, the Technical Committee of the NFF has swung into action by looking inwards. We gathered that in view of the urgency, the committee has elected to appoint an interim coach to oversee the Super Eagles AFCON qualifier vs Sao Tome and Principe.

This was revealed by a source privy to happenings at the Glasshouse. The source said the Federation was not in a hurry to appoint a new coach or rush the ongoing contract renewal negotiations with the Portuguese gaffer.

“Instead, the NFF will name a coach on an interim basis to oversee the team’s‘ dead rubber’ Africa Cup of Nations last qualifying game,” the source said.

Nigeria has booked a place at the AFCON to be hosted by Ivory Coast but will complete the phase with a clash against Sao Tome and Principe at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo.

According to the source, NFF technical director Austin Eguavoen will step in to lead the team for the game in Uyo.

Other options considered by the Nigeria Football Federation were Coach Salisu Yusuf and Enyimba International FC gaffer Finidi George.

The appointment will be effected before September 4 when the Super Eagles camp will open in Uyo for the game vs Sao Tome Principe.

Coach Eguavoen handled the Super Eagles as interim coach last year when they crashed out of the 2022 AFCON in Cameroon. On return from the disappointing AFCON, he also failed to lead the team to Qatar as the Super Eagles failed to beat Ghana Black Stars in Abuja.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/09/afcon-qualifier-eguavoen-to-lead-super-eagles-again/

It is looking like a situation of when the desirable is not available then the available becomes the desirable.

In fairness to Coach Austin Eguavoen, he is such a patriotic Nigerian who is always ready and willing to help bail us out when we have problems with the foreign coaches. I do hope nff will pay him well and as at when due this time around. Check my signature for free stuffs!

Nigeria is a huge joke under Ebola.

Hehehe.

Nigeria,the only country that moves backwards instead of forward.

Anyways,he is better than the Portuguese scammer they brought for us.

Peseiro abi na Poseidon na God go judge you oga.

I no fit laugh 😂🤪😂🤪

NFF is the real problem behind Nigeria super eagles underperforming


They'll invite white man and use him to cash out and after some years they'll sack him and bring in a local failure to lead super eagles to a tournament and they'll fail woefully

After the tournament they'll have something to justify their poor outing and they'll bring in another fake OYIBO 😜😜😜 for more cash out

OK

Good for him

He might still be the one to take the super eagles to Afcon after the last qualifier in UYO

Hmm.

Watching in 7D

Nice one

FreeStuffsNG:
It is looking like a situation of when the desirable is not available then the available becomes the desirable.

In fairness to Coach Austin Eguavoen, he is such a patriotic Nigerian who is always ready and willing to help bail us out when we have problems with the foreign coaches. I do hope nff will pay him well and as at when due this time around.

he is doing his Job as technical adviser stepping in d gap created... Left for me NFF should just engage a Loca coach and give him all necessary support an amuneke or finidi ll do the job for less than 70k dollars paseiro is charging plus na our national to.. except they're getting kick back from engaging paseiro...

Good development....away with low budget foreign coach

Another banger

Tugandanda:
Going back to our ex

Okafor's law

Racoon:
Nice one

By appointing Mr Austin Eguavoen it means the Portuguese coach did not accept to take a pay cut.

The Portuguese cartel boss was no better anyway.

Round and round Nigeria goes in circles


In all facets of our lives as Nigerians..


spits

Wrong move.
We all know & have used Eguaveon before, so not much excitement.

Another new indigenous coach would have come with new expectations & excitement.

Eguavoen again........haba...
Is he the majority shareholder in the NFF?

1994 players are still alive. Can't they try someone else ? Why not try any coach that has good record ?

hope they will not steal the ball... because guys de para these days... dem de steal anything under the sun

Hope they allow him and give him the necessary support.

FreeStuffsNG:
It is looking like a situation of when the desirable is not available then the available becomes the desirable.

In fairness to Coach Austin Eguavoen, he is such a patriotic Nigerian who is always ready and willing to help bail us out when we have problems with the foreign coaches. I do hope nff will pay him well and as at when due this time around.

He is a pathetic coach, he is only patriotic because he is useless, and nobody wants him, he was also a very limited SE player.

Why can't the NFF get sponsorship from local businesses to fund the SE team and management?

FreeStuffsNG:
It is looking like a situation of when the desirable is not available then the available becomes the desirable.

In fairness to Coach Austin Eguavoen, he is such a patriotic Nigerian who is always ready and willing to help bail us out when we have problems with the foreign coaches. I do hope nff will pay him well and as at when due this time around.

What is patriotic about mediocrity.
This sounds to me like favouritism.

Will you keep a guard dog simply because it is loyal and licks your face or that it can bark and chase away burglars.

Excuses day and night, management country.

crossfm:
Hehehe.

Nigeria,the only country that moves backwards instead of forward.

Anyways,he is better than the Portuguese scammer they brought for us.

Peseiro abi na Poseidon na God go judge you oga.

Lol. True. Austin is miles ahead of that guy.

sulaak:


He is a pathetic coach, he is only patriotic because he is useless, and nobody wants him, he was also a very limited SE player.

Why can't the NFF get sponsorship from local businesses to fund the SE team and management?

I just tire for Nigerians.
Just accustomed to suffering, failure and mediocrity.

This is a man that has coached the team perhaps more than any Nigerian in history with absolutely nothing to show for it.

Where is the respect he will get from the players, where is the fear they will have of him....

And on your second point, absolutely spot on. The management of the team from salaries to training and tours can be financed exclusively by sponsorship.

All it takes is creativity, hardwork and consistent integrity. Football is ultra popular in Nigeria and the people are just begging for some sort of purposeful structure and they will open their wallets.

Who loves soccer in Nigeria abeg step up and chase these charlatans out of the way. Tired of all these nonsensical merry-go-round.

Anything Tinubu touch dies. Nothing good will come out of Tinubu and his govt.

Watch when they said Tinubu kill ECOWAS via this YouTube link


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePc2lBNADWI

How can a coach qualify for a tournament which was a fulfilment of the terms of his contract and a condition for renewal only to be asked to take a pay cut? I don't understand NFF.

If they don't need his services, why not say so and move forward