The Nigeria Football Federation,
NFF, has confirmed that former Nigeria international football player,
Sunday Oliseh will coach the Super Eagles with a team that will include a Dutch
man as an assistant.
A manager close to Oliseh in Europe,
confirmed this on Wednesday that the former Eagles captain had accepted the job
offer and would work with an assistant from Europe.
He said,
“I
can confirm that Sunny has accepted the offer and he will be working with an
assistant coming down from Europe as well.”
On Wednesday, the NFF confirmed they were in talks with the
Belgium-based Nigerian to replace Stephen
Keshi, who was kicked out as Eagles coach on Saturday. Oliseh met with NFF
president Amaju Pinnick and Austin Jay Jay Okocha in London on Tuesday
The NFF added that Oliseh would come
with a “foreign technical assistant, whose job description will centre around
development programmes, and working with clubs’ youth teams and certified
academies towards developing the game from the grassroots.
“Current stand-in coach Salisu Yusuf
will also be in the new team, but with greater devotion to the home-based team,
otherwise known as Super Eagles B, and will be the interface between the
technical crew and the home boys.”
From the details of the package
being finalised, Oliseh is expected to come up with a five-year developmental
plan “to fashion a unique playing and coaching philosophy for all the national
teams, and will for this purpose, interface regularly with coaches of those
teams.
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