Super Eagles manager, Lars Lagerback, on Wednesday said Nigeria had more star players than Sweden.
Largerback argued that Sweden had a good team and that Zlatan Ibramovic was the only star player in the team.
He said, “We can count many names as star players in the Nigerian team. I mean players that are known on the world stage. (more…)
New Super Eagles coach Lars Lagerback inadvertently embarrassed one of his predecessors, Adegboyega Onigbinde, during his presentation to the panel interviewing him.
During the course of his presentation, Lagerback spoke about the 2002 World Cup and how Sweden upstaged Argentina, England and Nigeria to win the group. (more…)
The Nigeria Football Federation has finally named former Sweden coach Lars Lagerback as the new coach of the Super Eagles.
The Swede’s contract will be for an initial five months and he will be expected to deliver at least a semi-final finish at the World Cup in South Africa. (more…)
Nigerians expect to know, by today, the new foreign coach who will guide the Super Eagles to the World Cup in South Africa in June after last night’s crucial meeting by the Nigeria Football Federation.
The Technical Committee of the nation’s football governing body, yesterday, concluded its week long interview of the short-listed coaches out of more than 16foreign tacticians earlier touted for the plum job. (more…)
As the search for a foreign coach for the Super Eagles hots up, we examines the performance of 18 foreign coaches who have managed the Eagles previously.
- John Finch (England) 1949
He led Nigeria to its first international game against Sierra Leone on October 8, 1949 when both countries were under British administration. Nigeria won 2-0. He handed over to Daniel Anyiam who became the first indigenous coach of (more…)
Another blow in the face of Nigerian football lovers.
Unconfirmed reports disclosed that Hiddink who earns $8m per year as Russian coach had requested for a whopping sum of $3m for four months among other financial conditions that didn’t go down well with the NFF.
In a related development, Italian-born coach, Giovanni Trapattoni, has also withdrawn from the race, saying he is happy as the coach of the Republic of Ireland. All the invited coaches are expected to start arriving Abuja as from February 24 ahead of the interview scheduled to hold on the 26th.
Despite the assurances from his assistant that Ireland manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, will not take up the vacant Super Eagles job, his advisor has declared that Italian tactician would be interested in coaching Nigeria after turning down offer to handle the Les Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire. (more…)
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has denied reports that they have concluded arrangement to meet with Republic of Ireland manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, Guus Hiddink as well as the other coaches in London Thursday next week.
Chairman of the NFF technical committee, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi, said there was no iota of truth in the report just as he informed that all the candidates jostling for Shaibu Amodu’s job had been instructed to hit Abuja for interview. (more…)
