One of the shortlisted coaches for the job of the senior national team of Nigeria Steven McClaren have taken up a new role as the coach of the national team of Jamaica, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
McCLaren was shortlisted alongside the duo of Eric Chelle and Tom Saintfeit and was grilled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the job, which like we exclusively gathered will be handed to the former coach of Mali Chelle.
The assistant coach of Manchester United have now left his role at the English Premier League side to take up the role of Jamaica with the hope of qualifying the team for the 2026 world cup.
He has now gotten his wish was is to return to international football as head coach after his spell as coach of England from 2006 to 2007.
It means the race for who will be the next coach of the senior national team of Nigeria expected to be announced later this week is now between the duo of Chelle and Saintfeit.
However just like we exclusively reported, Chelle is the leading favorite for the role vacated by Finidi George after a poor performance in the world cup qualifiers games against South Africa and Benin Republic respectively.
Nigeria were beaten 1-2 by Benin Republic, a few days after drawing 1-1 with South Africa at home. It saw them drop to 5th in their group..
