The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), executive committee has named Salisu Yusuf as the new Super Eagles Head Coach after Frenchman Paul Le Guen failed to reach an agreement with the federation.
NFF’s Development Committee recommended that Le Guen be appointed as Super Eagles Technical Adviser to the executive committee on Monday, but the recommendation was rejected by the board according to a communique on Wednesday. However, Le Guen claims to have rejected the offer.
The board said that the Frenchman was unwilling to live in Nigeria and wanted to come with two assistants which would have made Nigerian coaches redundant made his candidature unacceptable to the board according to Van Guard.
“The committee further resolved that any candidate that will be recommended by the Technical and Development Sub-Committee must have accepted to be handed targets and must also be willing to live in Nigeria… In addition, such a candidate must agree to undergo other internal evaluation,’’ the communiqué said.
Ysusf will work at the Super Eagles and the CHAN Eagles and Imama Amakapabo would serve as Assistant Coach and Alloy Agu as Goalkeepers’ Trainer.
Le Guen had been named by the Nigerian Football Federation, which said he would work alongside Yusuf.
