Eguavoen can keep Super Eagles job if he wants – NFF

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said Augustine Eguavoen can keep the national team job on a permanent basis if he wants.

The 56-year-old stepped in on an interim basis after Gernot Rohr was sacked in December.

Eguavoen has so far impressed at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, with the Super Eagles winning all their Group D fixtures.

However, he was supposed to hand over to Jose Peseiro after the tournament.

But ESPN reports that the NFF is having second thoughts about that.

“We will have to leave him there, unless he doesn’t want the job,” an NFF source said.

Eguavoen is currently the NFF Technical Director, but the football house would allow him handle both roles.

“What we are even thinking of right now is to give Eguavoen the two jobs. The national team plays about 10 matches a year, so during those times when they are not playing, he can carry on with his other responsibilities.

“Coaching is very touch and go. Right now, he has a stable job being Technical Director where he gets paid by FIFA. To leave that for being a coach where things can change any moment and he can get fired would be very risky.

“That is why we want him to keep the two positions. So, whatever happens, he has shown that he can excel in both and if anything happens with the coaching, he can go back to just being technical director,” the official added.

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It's not just keeping the job.

He should be adequately remunerated.

i believed in him,he will make us proud

“We will have to leave him there, unless he doesn’t want the job,” an NFF source said.

An NFF source? Abeg who be the source?
Anyway, the main thing now na to defeat Tunisia & thereafter go all the way to the Final to lift the AFCON cup.

Big Ameen to this .. no foreign coach abeg

INVESTING IN OUR OWN SOIL.GOOD BETTER BEST.

same NFF wey de against local coaches or e jus de sing eguavoen praises all for the media n to boost him moral..
the best I can advise mr Austin is dt he should try to win the AFCON or at least get to the finals bcoz anything less than that wont be taken as a nice performance going by all this hype..
d painful tin be say na dis same fans were dey hype am go call for his head n beg NFF for foreign coach wen tinz starts going bad..
no be the same tuchel wey bleus fans de praise say he Is d best coach in EPL n even better than pep, but now DM want use insult kill d man...people gat short memories abeegi

doggedfighter:
It's not just keeping the job.

He should be adequately renumerated.

Remunerated

ecoco2014:

Remunerated

Thanks a bunch !

Were they planning on replacing him before?

FairlyUSEDpussy:
Better than underperforming albinos carting away money.......under the guise of employing foreign coach.........

All those foreign coaches are paid in dollars . No be small cashout I swr