The Executive Committee of the Nigeria
Football Federation (NFF) has named Salisu Yusuf as the new Super Eagles
Head Coach following Frenchman Paul Le Guen’s rejection of the job.
The Technical and Development Committee of the NFF on Monday recommended to its executive committee that Le Guen be appointed Super Eagles Technical Adviser. The Frenchman claimed that he rejected the offer before his recommendation to the NFF executive committee.
The NFF, however, in a communiqué after
its executive committee meeting on Wednesday, said that Yusuf had been
appointed following its rejection of the recommendation of its Technical
and Development Committee to appoint Le Guen.
“The Executive Committee instructed the
Technical and Development Sub-Committee to, within the next seven days,
recommend a candidate for the post of Technical Adviser for the Super
Eagles.
“It noted that the refusal of Le Guen,
earlier recommended by the sub-committee o accept to be given targets as
well as unwillingness to live in Nigeria made his candidature
unacceptable to the board.
“The committee also disapproved of Le
Guen’s desire to come to the job with two assistants which will make
Nigerian coaches redundant.
“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.
The communiqué said that Yusuf would
combine his Super Eagles job with that of the CHAN Eagles, while Imama
Amakapabo would serve as Assistant Coach and Alloy Agu as Goalkeepers’
Trainer.
It also approved the recommendation of
the Technical and Development Sub-Committee for Bitrus Bewarang to
replace late Coach Shaibu Amodu as the new National Technical Director
(NTD).
It further approved the recommendation
for Nduka Ugbade to return to the U-17 national team as Assistant Coach
and mandated all sub-committees to henceforth submit reports of their
activities to NFF Board through the general-secretary.
The communiqué said: “Executive
committee approved that henceforth, only the head coaches of the various
national teams will be on monthly salary, while assistant coaches will
receive only bonuses and allowances. “The assistant coaches presently in
the NFF’s employ have been given till the end of this year to secure
substantive employment elsewhere as the federation deals squarely with
its financial constraints’’.
(NAN)
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