BREAKING :NFF names Le Guen as new Eagles coach

Le Guen 

The Technical and Development Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has named Paul Le Guen as the new Super Eagles head coach on Monday, July 18. 


According to Paul Bassey, a member of the technical committee, Le Guen is to be assisted by Salisu Yusuf and Imama Amapakabo, while Alloy Agu is the goalkeeper’s trainer.

Amaju Pinnick, the president of the NFF, has stressed that they have high hopes to qualify the national team for the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup. 

Briefing journalists on Monday Pinnick explained that the decision to get a quality coach was taken after the failure of the team to qualify for the 2017 African Cup of Nations (AFCON).

He said: “We want to avoid as much as possible the perceived mistakes that made us to miss out of the AFCON 2017. To ensure that we brought the best coach that can qualify us for the World Cup, the first thing we did was to ensure we got a partner that will pay the fees of all the coaches. 

We sent a request of about five coaches and that was granted and the company requested we should keep every other thing under wraps for now. After the last AFCON ouster, we started thinking of Russia and we are making efforts to pay all the coaches so that they will give their best at all times.

Truly we are very desirous of qualifying for the 2018 world cup.”