Super Eagles Will Have A Coach In Next One Or Two Weeks – Sports Minister
The Minister of Sports, Senator John Enoh, has promised Nigerian football fans that the senior men’s national team, the Super Eagles, would have a new coach in the next one or two weeks.
The Super Eagles have been without a coach after the expiration of the contract of Jose Peseiro following the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in February where the team finished as runners up.
Finidi George, who was one of the assistants to Peseiro coached the team in the last two friendly matches they played against Ghana and Mali, but the Minister said the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will soon name a permanent coach for the team.
“Unfortunately, the senior national team doesn’t have a coach. We played two friendlies and had just Finidi George oversee those two matches,” Senator Enoh said in an interview on Thursday.
“The first responsibility of getting a coach lies with the NFF and I have been in touch with the NFF because I think Nigerians didn’t expect that after AFCON and after the contract with coach Peseiro came to an end and wasn’t renewed, that it will take as long and not have a coach yet.
“But NFF is conscious and mindful that our next qualifiers in June, what I can assure is that in the next one or two weeks at the most that the senior national team will have a new coach.
“My engagement and interactions with NFF suggest to me that NFF is conscious of expectations of Nigerians, they are conscious that they cannot afford to lead the country to another non-appearance at the World Cup, the NFF knows what Nigeria lost by not being at the last World Cup and they are working very hard to ensure it doesn’t happen again.”
