Nigerians have been reassured by the Minister of Sports Senator John Enoh that the senior men’s national team, the Super Eagles, will have a new coach in the next week or two.
While the Nigeria Football Federation searches for a significant replacement for Jose Peseiro, whose contract expired at the end of February, Finidi George has been leading the squad in an interim capacity.
The Minister of Sports told the ChannelsTV’s Sports that “the responsibility of getting a coach lies with the NFF and i have been in touch with the NFF because i think Nigerians didnt expect that after AFCON and after the contract with coach Peseiro came to an end and wasn’t renewed, that it take as long and not have a coach yet”.
“Unfortunately, the senior national team doesn’t have a coach. We played two friendlies and had just Finidi George oversee those two matches. But NFF is conscious and mindful that our next qualifiers in June, what I can assure is that in the next one or two weeks at the most, the senior national team will have a new coach”.
In the June World Cup qualifier against South Africa, the Eagles will be looking to recover from their disappointing draws against Lesotho and Zimbabwe.
After the 2022 fiasco, the minister argued that the nation could not afford to miss out on another World Cup.
“I think we have not had a tremendous start. It’s a shaky one, and therefore, there is a milage to cover given that we didn’t go for the last World Cup. We cannot afford not to go for the next and therefore everything needs to be done.
“Coming after AFCON and coming after we have had a tremendous show somewhat, I think everybody expects that we should be able to consolidate on that and take it from there,” Enoh said.
