NFF shortlists Yusuf, Saintfiet, Le Guen for Super Eagles’ chief coach job


The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has shortlisted three coaches for consideration for the post of Chief Coach of Super Eagles, and will name the successful one on Monday.

A statement by the NFF on Friday in Abuja listed the three coaches to include Super Eagles’ caretaker coach Salisu Yusuf. The rest two are former Ethiopia coach Tom Saintfiet, and Frenchman Paul Le Guen, who once coached Cameroon.

“On Friday at the Glass House, the NFF Technical and Development Committee pored over more than 20 applications before cutting the list to three.

“Among those who showed interest in coaching the Super Eagles are Giovanni Solinas, Saintfiet, Hey Antoine, Mark Wotte, Yusuf, Ernesto Paulo Calvinho, Dorian Marin, and Le Guen. “Others are Miodrag Jesic, Perry Hansen, Ove Pedersen, Adebayo Lateef Kola, Sylvanus Okpala and Peter Ijeh. “The rest are Vladimir Petrovic-Pizon, Lodewijk de Kruif, Kenichi Yatsuhashi, Bjorn Frank Peters and Ricki Herbert,’’ the statement disclosed.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Saintfiet, a 43-year-old Belgian, has coached the national teams of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Yemen, Malawi and Togo. He has also worked with the Qatar national under-17 side, Young Africans FC of Tanzania and Free State Stars FC in South Africa.

Yusuf, 54, was capped by Nigeria at under-20 level and won FA Cup titles with El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri as a player. He coached top clubs Kano Pillars, El-Kanemi Warriors and Enyimba FC, and assisted Super Eagles’ chief coaches Samson Siasia and Stephen Keshi (who died last month). Yusuf was caretaker coach for two friendly matches, which the Eagles won against Mali and Luxembourg in Europe at the end of May.

Frenchman Le Guen, 52, played for Brest, Nantes and Paris Saint Germain (PSG) and won 17 caps for France, before coaching Rennes, Lyon, PSG (in France) and Glasgow Rangers (in Scotland). He led the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon to qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals and also coached Oman.

Speaking on the development, Chairman of NFF’s Technical and Development Committee, Chris Green, said the shortlist was on the basis of a set of criteria. “We set a criteria with which we evaluated the nearly two dozen applications and then agreed on the three persons that we shortlisted. “The Committee will now meet on July 18 to interview the shortlisted candidates and immediately name the next Super Eagles’ Head Coach,” he said.


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picture 1. Yusuf, 2 Saintfiet, 3 Le Guen

1.Salisu Yusuf

is a former El Kanemi gaffer that is well versed with the Nigerian home league.

he is currently the care taker coach of the super eagles.

Yusuf guided the team to victory against Mali 1-0 and Luxembourg 3-1 in an international friendly matches played in May and June this year.



guys who will you prefer and why?

lets go there..

Saintfiet... He's young and ambitious judging from his CV.

Saint leaf. It is good for ofe akwu.

I choose home Based Coach. ...they live here and know our Players. ..they Come cheap too

Tom Saintfiet (born 29 March 1973 in Mol, Belgium)


is a Belgian association football manager and former player. He played football between 1983 and 1997 (FC Boom) before becoming a football manager at the age of 24, becoming the youngest manager in Belgian football.

Coaching career:

Saintfiet has coached in several countries; Belgium, Qatar, Germany, Faroe Islands, Finland, Jordan, Tanzania and the Netherlands. He has also worked in Africa, becoming the Head Coach of Namibia, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. Before going to Namibia, Saintfiet was manager of Finnish Premier League club RoPS Rovaniemi. In 2002, Tom Saintfiet coached Faroese team B71 and finished second in the Faroe Islands First Division. He then went on to become coach at Al-Ittihad Sports Club of Qatar (now called Al-Gharafa Sports Club). In 2004 he Coached the Qatar U17 team to third place in the AFC Asian Championships and qualified for the U17 FIFA World Championships. Prior to FIFA World Cup 2010, Saintfiet was one of the candidates to lead the African Super Eagles, Nigeria, for the World Cup campaign in South Africa.

Paul Le Guen ( born 1 March 1964)

is a French football manager and a former player. His last role was as manager of the Oman national football team, from which he was relieved in November 2015.

Playing career:

During his playing career he enjoyed successful stays with FC Nantes and PSG and won 17 caps for the French national team.

Club level:

During his playing career, Le Guen played at Stade Brest for six years, Nantes Atlantique for two years, before leaving Brittany for Paris St. Germain where he played for seven years (with 478 appearances and a Cup Winners' Cup medal in 1996).

International level:

At international level he played 17 times for France due to injuries and he was part of the team which lost out on a trip to the World Cup in 1994, along with Eric Cantona and David Ginola. He ended his playing career by taking part in a friendly where his home region of Brittany faced Cameroon on 21 May 1998. The match finished 1–1.

Managerial career:

Le Guen had a successful managerial career in France, most notably leading Olympique Lyonnais to three consecutive Ligue 1 titles. He has also managed Stade Rennais, Paris Saint-Germain, Glasgow Rangers and the Cameroon national team

to aviod insult and embarrasement, nff should employ yusuf is much cheaper

jieta:
to aviod insult and embarrasement, nff should employ yusuf is much cheaper

what kind of insult hmm lol

abeg lalasticlala come and see

due to interference when its a local coach, think going for foreign coach will be the best option ,

oh yea I think Le Guen should be given a chance.i like his portfolio

home base ave realy disapoint NIgeria so much .. i think foreign coach is the best let us see what they ave to offer to us

bring back Oliseh!

I thought 2face idibia and gandoki was the preferred candidate.

the whites have it

Don't be surprised if dat hausa man clinches d post.





Government of the north, by d North and for the north

Ok. Let's wait and see how it will unfold.

At this stage, let's try a foreign coach especially now that we have more players in many foreign countries though some play in not that popular leagues. A foreign coach I'll now command respect from the nff and their mess, galvanize foreign and few local players and do a thorough scouting. If a foreign coach fails, we I'll then make our normal u-turn to local coach and then begin to look foreign one again after.

Still shaking my head for APC.

OK. I wish dem hapi shortlisting

Paul le guen is d man for the Job

Good and robust choices as long as they are ready to coach super eagle and die few years later

I will go for Le Guen

French coaches like Le guen are more tactical and discipline in nature.

chaiks:
At this stage, let's try a foreign coach especially now that we have more players in many foreign countries though some play in not that popular leagues. A foreign coach I'll now command respect from the nff and their mess, galvanize foreign and few local players and do a thorough scouting. If a foreign coach fails, we I'll then make our normal u-turn to local coach and then begin to look foreign one again after.

if we must try a foreign coach, we could do better then those two.

NFF should have gotten better guys, not these ones whose CVs can't even smell Amodu's own

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I go for home base coach,
Sai Yusuf!

Nigeria should go for laurent blanc or frank rijikarrd

mopolch:
bring back Oliseh!

God4bid

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