The search for a new coach for the senior national team of Nigeria will reach a whole new height at the end of this month, OwnGoalNigeria.comunderstands.
Already the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has received applications from around 15 coaches who are interested in filling the vacuum created by the exit of Finidi George, who quit his role after a little over a month in charge of the team.
Finidi who led the team for their world cup qualifiers games against South Africa and Benin Republic respectively, where they were held to a 1-1 draw and suffered a 1-2 defeat left his role ,after the NFF made it clear that they will be bringing in an expatriate coach to head the team.
His successor is likely to be a foreign coach, but some indigenous coaches are also in the mix and one of them is Samson Siasia who will be returning from a coaching ban in September, the month the team is expected to be back in action.
” Siasia has been mentioned by some people here at the NFF but not as head coach I must say. There is a space for a Nigerian to assist whoever gets the nod as the head coach and don’t you think it will be best for Siasia to make his return that way?”, he asked.
Meanwhile the NFF has also dissociated itself from media reports making rounds about their interest in having decorated and celebrated French coach Herve Renard who is set to be free from his role as the coach of the women national team of France in September.
Renard is well respected on the African continent after leading Zambia and Cote d’Ivoire to the Africa Cup of Nations title in 2012 and 2015 respectively.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
