Introduction

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Conclusion

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Mauritius has replaced Sao Tome and Principe in the Super Eagles group for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers which begins next month.

Mauritius filed an appeal against Sao Tome and Principe on the player who scored the goal that decided the game against them. Insisting that the player has tested positive to Covid 19 before the game.

The Director of Competitions of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Mr Samson Adamu has confirmed to thenff.com that Mauritius won a case it filed against Sao Tomé and Príncipe concerning their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations preliminary qualifying fixture, and will therefore join the combatants in Group A of the qualification series starting next month.

The Victory for Mauritius at the CAF Disciplinary Committee means they now join Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau in Group A of the six-match phase that ends in March next year. Nigeria will play Sierra Leone in Abuja on Thursday 9th June and then play Mauritius on Monday 13th June.

Per a report on respected Italian media outlet La Gazzetta dello Sport Victor Osimhen has agreed personal terms with English Premier League side Newcastle United hoping to join them before the end of the summer transfer window.

The deal is reportedly worth twice the amount (€4.5m) he is presently earning at Napoli which amounts to 3.4 billion Naira in Nigerian currency. Further cementing his spot as the highest earning Nigerian player in Europe.

Newcastle United are however yet to agree a deal with Napoli over his transfer fee with the Serie A side holding out for a transfer fee in the region of around €100 million before they can sanction any deal.

We gathered the idea of asking for a €100 million is largely due to the fact that 30% of whatever is gotten from the sale of the forward will go to his former club Lille as agreed in the deal that saw him join Roma two seasons ago.

Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro was yesterday announced by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the substantive coach of the Nigerian team on an initial one year deal which starts with the two friendly games in the United States of America against Mexico and Ecuador respectively.

Owngoalnigeria.com takes a look back at the reaction that trailed his initial appointment as coach of the Nigerian team at the start of the year. An appointment which didn’t get to see the light of the day. Below is the view from Portugal.

Speaking to Breaking the Line audio Podcast. Jose Pedro Pais,  a Boavista fan and TV commentator said the appointment is nothing to be excited about as Peseiro is a poor coach who hasn’t lasted a season at any club the past ten years.

Pais insist Nigerians shouldn’t be excited over his appointment as he hasn’t proved himself to be a good coach per his recent appointment and to him, he is a poor coach base on the manner of his exit from the teams he has handled the last ten years, most recently Venezuela.

“Peseiro is a well known manager, person in Portugal. He’s been here for a long time, he is 61 I think , I don’t think he has much more to offer that we don’t already know but still. I must confess I was quite surprised, is there is something that still surprise me today at soccer is that we know managers can change according to age and system. If they have a good agent they can go everywhere in spite of the bad work they have done recently”, he said.

“I checked up his recent background because I wasn’t following. I haven’t heard a lot about him for the past years and I just remembered and he is not a manager that I really appreciate and I don’t think he is quite good actually and I don’t think he has done an entire season in a team for the past ten years. He was in Sporting, he was in Victoria, he was in Saudi Arabia, Braga, Porto but still for the very best ten years he didn’t finish one entire season. Which means that he is not that good.

“I don’t think he is the kind of manager that can go through this wave of good coaches that Portugal has. There is a quite of a fashion thing about coaches. It’s a trend about Portuguese coaches , I don’t think he finds himself inside this wave. Therefore I don’t think there is much to expect from him. Venezuela was his last work. He only got one victory in ten games. I think that’s a really bad record.

“He left to Venezuela at August. He said that he had 14 months without collecting salary which is not exactly the same thing when you coaching a club or country”, he further stressed.

Newly-appointed coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles has been handed a one-year short term contract, as he begins his reign as the head coach of Nigeria’s Senior Men’s National team.

Contrary to speculations, the Portuguese coach was only handed a 12 months deal, which is subject to renewal based on performance-related clauses.

With the NFF facing a legal battle on payments for erstwhile coach of the team, Gernot Rohr, all pointers are the Federation are weary of allowing thunder strike in the same spot.

Peseiro will lead the Eagles in the United States when the team faces Mexico and Ecuador in international friendly games. He will be assisted by Ex-Eagles winger Finidi George, Salisu Yusuf and Usman Abdallah.

His first assignment will be the upcoming friendly games United States of America. The games will be followed by the start of the qualifiers for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations with the team’s opening game of the series coming against Sierra Leone.

The Nigeria Football Federation on Sunday announced the appointment of Mr Joeé Santos Peseiro as the new Head Coach of the Senior Men National Team, Super Eagles. The appointment is with immediate effect, subject to the signing of agreed terms between the NFF and Mr Peseiro.

José Vitor dos Santos Peseiro, 62 last month, is a Portuguese who played as a striker in his days and has wide and varied experience coaching top Clubs and National Teams across four different continents, namely Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.

An educationist with a degree in physical education/sports sciences, Peseiro has top-level coaching qualifications/training, and has coached at Sporting Lisbon, FC Porto, Panathinaikos, Rapid Bucharest, Sporting Braga, Victoria Gumaraes, Al-Hilal, Al-Wahda, Al-Ahly Cairo, Sharjah FC and Real Madrid (assistant coach during the Galacticos era), as well as serving as Head Coach of the Saudi Arabian and Venezuelan National Teams.

Peseiro is expected to lead out the Super Eagles for the first time during the upcoming tour of the United States of America, during which the three –time African champions will slug it out with Mexico and Ecuador ‘A’ Teams in prestige friendlies. The Eagles will tango with the El Tri at the AT & T Stadium in Dallas, State of Texas on Saturday, 28th May before flying to New Jersey to confront Ecuador at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison on Thursday, 2nd June.

The NFF also announced that former Nigeria international forward, Finidi George will now be 1st Assistant to Peseiro, with Salisu Yusuf now to be 2nd Assistant as well as Head Coach of the CHAN and U23 National Teams. Usman Abdallah is 3rd Assistant while Eboboritse Uwejamomere will be the Match Analyst and another former Nigeria international, Ike Shorounmu will be the Goalkeepers’ Trainer.

The decision to announce the hiring of Peseiro is coming hot on the heels of report that the Federal Government led by the minister for youths and sports Sunday Dare is yet to agree to the choice of the Portuguese as new coach of the team.

Nigeria international goalkepper Maduka Okoye signed off in style as his team Sparta Rotterdam picked up a vital 3-1 win against Heracles to beat the drop to the Dutch Eredivisie.

The game was tagged as a relegation six pointer as the loser of the game will drop to the relegation play offs. Okoye was on from start from finish and was only denied a clean sheet by a late goal from Sinan Bakış seven minutes from full time.

It was his last game in the colours of the team he joined in 2020 on a free transfer from German side Fortuna Dusseldorf. He will join English Championship side Watford in a deal that makes him Africa’s second most expensive goalkepper.

He is only behind Chelsea’s Eduoard Mendy in terms of most valuable African goalkepper. This season he kept seven clean sheets in 30 games.  Three short of his last season tally of ten clean sheets in 28 games.

The Federal Government of Nigeria represented by the minister for youths and sports Sunday Dare says they don’t have any agreement in place with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro to be the new coach of the Super Eagles.

As first reported by OwnGoalNigeria.com Jose Peseiro has been picked by the NFF as the new coach of the team from a shortlist of four coaches but their proposal was rejected by the ministry, who order for a fresh interview with all shortlisted coaches.

It means opening the chance for the trio of Philip Cocu, Laurent Blanc and Ernesto Valverde who were shortlisted before Peseiro was handed the role. A move which the NFF defended by saying it’s solely down to cost as he is the most affordable salary wise.

However with an agreement now in place that the new Super Eagles coach will be paid by the federal government of Nigeria, the minister want a fresh interview to be conducted and the NFF have done that already.

They still settled for Peseiro and what we reported as an agreement to finally engage the Portuguese has now been termed as not true by a source at the ministry who spoke with one of Nigeria’s biggest print outfit Sporting Life.

The report written by Onyewuchi Nwachukwu also listed the five conditions the NFF must ensure it adhere to before formally engaging any of the shortlisted coaches. Below are the conditions.

1. Ministry ensured due diligence in the employment process to the extent that it is possible.

2. Ministry ensured that other shortlisted coaches were interviewed and sounded out.

3. Contract for new coach will now be for a year with a 6-month review period.

4. Contract is drafted in such a way that mutual disengagement is possible without Nigeria getting the shorter end of the stick.

5. The Key Performance Index (KPI) in place will ensure Nigeria is able to tap and get the best out of the new coach. The search for a new coach for the present interim arrangement.

New Borussia Dortmund Signing Karim Adeyemi says he appreciates his Nigerian roots even though he feels more German than any other country.

Born in Germany to a Nigerian father and a Romanian mother making him eligible for all three countries, he has however represented Germany from U16 right up to senior level.

According to the wing forward, his father migrated from Nigeria to Germany to play professional football but he came at a very late age hence couldn’t cut it at any level higher to catch the interest of the world.

The 20 year old who scored 19 goals in 27 games for RB Salzburg in Austria which earned him the move to Dortmund, while speaking to the Austrian media reveals his strong connection to Nigerian even though he feels German.

” My connection to Nigeria, the country of my father is strong. I can’t even deny it because my father ensured I was brought up with all the norms and knowledge of the yoruba culture. I cherish my roots so well even though I feel German”, he was quoted as saying by Heute.

He admitted that even though his father’s dream was for him to play for the senior national team of Nigeria, he still supported his choice of deciding to play for Germany at senior level.

” The discussion started early. Very early into my career but at the end I was left alone to make my choice. My father always wanted me to play for Nigeria but he fully support my decision to play for Germany”, he concluded.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have been told to make their plans without Watford forward Emmanuel Dennis who is presently out injured, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Dennis suffered a knee injury during the course of Watford’s 0-1 loss to Crystal Palace and he hasn’t recovered from it yet. There is every tendency that he won’t play for Watford again this season.

It could even be he has played his last game for the team as he is heavily linked with a move away following their demotion to the English Championship. His goal tally of ten goals makes him the top scorer of the team.

His international career has been a roller coaster affair from falling out with former coach Gernot Rohr to snubbing the chance of representing the team at the Africa Cup of Nations. He however returned to the team for the ill fated two legged world cup qualifiers playoff against Ghana.

He was named in the squad for the upcoming friendly games against Mexico and Ecuador respectively but he will miss both games scheduled to be played in the United States of America.

Aside the injury, he is also expected to use that period of time to hold talks with the hierarchy of Watford about his future which for now lies outside the club per sources close to the 24 year old.