President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju
Pinnick has confirmed that Stephen Keshi will
continue as the coach of the Super Eagles, in a
development that will come as a surprise to
many.
The 44-year-old NFF boss has also confirmed the
new set-up of the technical department of the
NFF.
The embattled NFF boss was speaking about the
new NFF technical department that will be led by
former Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu, and
confirmed that Keshi will continue as the Super
Eagles coach.
“We have Shuaibu Amodu as the technical
director, he was boss to Keshi. Keshi is the head
coach, he has won everything and he is still going
to work. ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha is the head of the
technical study group and Felix Anyansi-Agwu,
one of the most successful club administrators in
the country today, is the head of the technical
committee and with these people I don’t think you
can go wrong,” Pinnick told SL10.ng.
This comes on the heels of Pinnick absolving the
out-of-contract Stephen Keshi of any blames,
rather criticizing the players for not having the
right ‘attitude’ to qualify the country for the
AFCON.
But it will come as a bit of surprise also, seeing
that Pinnick had earlier sacked Keshi, replacing
him with Amodu – albeit on an interim basis –
and announcing that a foreign coach would be
appointed, before Keshi was believed to have been
returned on the orders of President Goodluck
Jonathan.