The board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has already started the process of getting a new coach for the senior national team of Nigeria according to a chieftain of the football house, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Nigeria concluded the AFCON qualifiers campaign with a 1-2 loss to Rwanda, a dead rubber game as they have already sealed their spot at the tournament with two games to spare. The game also brought to an end the reign of Austine Eguavoen as interim coach of the team.
Eguavoen who also doubles as the technical director of the NFF will be a part of the process of appointing a new coach for the team, but he could also be retained in the event that an agreement isn’t found with a new coach before the resumption of the world cup qualifiers in March.
” We (NFF) have already started the process of getting a new coach for the team, which is getting a sponsor to pick up his wage bill. That is the first step but if we fail to get one then we have to fall back to what we have”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com.
” Talks have been held with prospective sponsors and we are hoping it ends well. Preferably before the resumption of the world cup qualifiers. Eguavoen hasn’t done badly but we know what we want for the world cup qualifiers”, he concluded.
