The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has described the purported appointment of former Nigeria international, Austin Eguavoen, as an interim manager of the Super Eagles after Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro stepped down at the weekend as ‘a joke taken too far’.
Though Eguavoen has been the NFF’s Technical Director since 2020, he was appointed the Super Eagles manager on an interim basis for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, following the departure of German coach Gernot Rohr.

He later returned to his Technical Director’s job after the Super Eagles crashed out of the AFCON 2021 following an agonising defeat to Tunisia in the round of sixteen.

Following the exit of Peseiro at the weekend, there has been overflowing news in a section of the main media and social media that Eguavoen has been mandated by the NFF to step in as the interim manager of the Super Eagles. While Enyimba International coach, Finidi George, who was Peseiro’s assistant to the recently concluded AFCON in Cote d’Ivore, will serve as Eguavoen’s assistant until the NFF names a substantive manager for the Super Eagles ahead of upcoming international engagements, including the qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup double-header against South Africa in June 2024.

But a decent source at the NFF yesterday dismissed with a wave of the hand the purported Eguavoen’s link to the Super Eagles job, adding that the former national team captain is not even being considered to take over on an interim basis.

“There’s nothing for Eguavoen as far as I know, and, in fact, nobody ever mentioned him in any capacity for the Super Eagles,” the source said, adding that those thrusting Eguavoen forward for the job are only jokers.

“I think those guys are just joking. Nobody has mentioned Eguavoen as Super Eagles’ interim manager.”

Incidentally, some callers on the Lagos-based Sports radio station, Brila FM, have kicked against the possible return of Eguavoen as the Super Eagles manager; they described him as a misfit for what is regarded as one of the most high profile coaching jobs in the world.

“Please, tell the Nigeria Football Federation not to appoint Eguavoen as Super Eagles coach; we no go to the World Cup again because that Baba don’t know anything o. He is not a better coach o and we no go gree NFF o,” an angry caller said yesterday.

Another said:“ Who did this to Nigeria? Has Eguavoen forced himself upon us? I think we have to blame the NFF, who don’t know what they are doing. The NFF has not come out with any categorical statement after Peseiro ‘s contract expired. I think it’s the prerogative of Eguavoen to step in as an interim coach since he’s the Technical Director of the NFF, but all we want now is for the NFF to do the right thing.”

Source: https://thenationonlineng.net/nff-dismisses-eguavoen-as-super-eagles-interim-coach/

Double wahala for deadi bodi

Confuse football federation = CFF

he is a disaster

Werey NFF

With the way NFF is handling this matter, Nigeria might not qualify for 2026 world cup

Emmanuel Amunike is the best man for the job. I don't even know what NFF is waiting for!?

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This headline is misleading and a joke of a headline. Read the body and the head then find the joke in THE Nation

Absuchat:
Double wahala for deadi bodi

In fela's voice

Give this man time and he will deliver

Better repudiation. Eguafon dat can hardly beat GH in last world cup qualifiers. Twice of Eguavon is less than my pesero.

I thought he was a lifetime interim coach, so who's now trying to wrestle the position from him?

It's all fake news.

So it was just fake news and they couldn't clear the air since.

And now we still aren't sure wether this is another fake news

Let them get a coach ASAP for the coach to have enough time to plan ahead of our matches .


But that "decent source" sha, is it that he/she has a beef against Eguavoen or what, his choice of words is somehow

I will even prefer Ten hang or Jose mukaila Mourinho than Eguavoen.

I think what the Nff might do for now is to hire an indigenous Coach for the qualifiers,then afterwards get a half baked albino coach to take over for the competition..

I beg help me tell or beg whoever curse the NFF say make him pardon them cos the mumu too much .

Eguavoen Ke?..What's the plan..No be to stagnate Super Eagles?...

Nigeria won't go to the world cup.
See south Africa as they are organized.
In fact, we should v lost to south Africa at the semis n allow those guys to pummel Ivory Coast.
South Africa ll be waiting for us to revenge in the world cup qualifiers. Mark my words.

His village people at what they know to do best!

Why let Pesiro go? The man did well for us as a nation. We should have given him more chance.

This is not even from NFF officially. Confusion everywhere.

Let them just appoint Amunike, unless they are going for a foreign coach.

How can he even be the technical director of nff?
What is technical about him? Talk less of directing

What was is contribution to Jpes at the afcon?

African coaches are not ready yet. They are technically no where near their European counterparts. Africans really need to up their trainings and tactics and knowledge of the game so we can see an African coach lifting the UCL, coaching European teams and even winning the WC

iampeterben:
Why let Pesiro go? The man did well for us as a nation. We should have given him more chance.

He is a fluke packing the bus.
He only needed a team like Nigeria to boost his terrible CV as a coach to get a big job

cunny88:
African coaches are not ready yet. They are technically no where near their European counterparts. Africans really need to up their trainings and tactics and knowledge of the game so we can see an African coach lifting the UCL, coaching European teams and even winning the WC

Have u heard of emenalo?

It's better the Super Eagles play thier games without a coach than appoint Eguavoen as their coach. We reject the serial loser with immediate alacrity

Eguavoen led the Super Eagles to
the worst performance in the 2021
Nation's Cup🏆 & therefore should never
smell that job again❗️❗️❗️


It was his chance & he flunked it big time.


His contemporary, Stephen Keshi took
charge of the the same team and won
the Nation's Cup🏆 in 2013 or thereabouts.