Newly appointed head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Emmanuel Amuneke says there will be no conflict of interest in his role as assistant to the technical adviser of the team Austine Eguavoen.
Amuneke’s appointment was announced last week by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) with Salisu Yusuf dropping to the role of second assistant while Joseph Yobo keeps his role but this time around as third assistant.
The decision to draft Amuneke led to talks about a possible conflict of interest as he is one who have handled the head coach role of a senior national team before when he guided Tanzania to the Africa Cup of Nations.
He also said in an interview in December that he doesn’t see himself working as an assistant to any coach in the Super Eagles setup when he was asked about taking up a role as assistant to then coach Gernot Rohr.
It led to talks on if his appointment won’t bring about a conflict of interest with Eguavoen who is the head of the crew but he was quick to point out that it won’t be an issue at all.
“Why will there be conflict of interest? We are focusing on the same goal and that’s to take Nigerian football to another level, we have same interest and that’s what will help us.
“We have to lay down an example to the younger generation and that’s what most of us who played the game in the past and are now into coaching are doing. We have a target, and we must achieve that working together as a team, so I don’t see any conflict of interest”, he told Charles Diya of New Telegraph.
