The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will meet with the National Sports Commission (NSC) for a final decision on the position of a substantive coach for the senior national team of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Austine Eguavoen who is the technical director of the NFF took temporary charge of the team for the AFCON qualifiers, and successfully led them to qualification with two games to spare.
He is expected to return to his role as technical director, but the NFF are yet to secure the funds needed to employ his replacement. Their desire is to get a foreign coach for the team whose bill will be picked up by a private sponsor.
The idea of getting a foreign coach for the team doesn’t sit properly with the NSC according to a report on Complete Sports. They are of the opinion that whoever comes in as new coach won’t have the opportunity of assessing the players in a test game before the world cup qualifiers in March.
Super Eagles next engagement will be in the world’s cup qualifiers in March away to Rwanda , and the NSC have fears that a new coach might struggle to get a favorable result with no test game, hence will prefer Eguavoen to continue in his role.
“It’s a dicey situation at the moment I must confess. The NFF still want to go ahead with the appointment of a foreign coach, but want to sort out the financial aspect before proceeding, ” the source divulged to Completesports.com.
“The feelers from the NSC is that they want the present technical crew led by Eguavoen to stay on. To them, bringing in a new coach would not be ideal for the World Cup qualifiers.
“The thinking is the limited time the new coach will have before the Super Eagles next game against the Amavubi of Rwanda.
“All the stakeholders are expected to come together this week to take a final decision on the issue.”
