The Nigeria Football Federation executive committee has given a day ultimatum to the NFF committee to announce the name of a Technical Adviser for the senior national team.
The NFF committe has said that a Technical Adviser will be announced in August.
This is however necessary following the federation’s failure to obtain Frenchman Paul Le Guen’s signature as coach of the team.
Chris Green, Chairman of the NFF Technical and Development Committee, added that the deadline given to the committee by the NFF Board to name Le Guen’s replacement ended on 27th July but they have been told that it shouldn’t exceed August.
He said, “We are working to ensure that we finish with the other incidentals, because as at the last time we didn’t do that.
“We left it for the executive to do, which ordinarily should be their responsibility.
“But when they now asked us to go and do it again, they now told us to complete everything with the incidentals and send recommendations.
“It’s based on that that we are doing this now; we don’t want a situation where somebody will come out again and say this and that.
“As I speak with you, we have made contacts, we have done interviews, we have asked questions and the rest of them – even verifying from every other person.
“We have considered at a lot of people, but we have zeroed in on one person.
“It may not be from the former list; it’s a different exercise entirely, because as I speak to you, even when we have closed entries, some people are still applying.
“We have spread our dragnet by considering the once that applied now and it will be announced to Nigerians by next month; So, I think we are on course.”
NFF subsequently named Salisu Yusuf as the new Super Eagles Head Coach and claimed it rejected the recommendation of its technical committee for Le Guen to be appointed the Super Eagles Technical Adviser, and as a result the appointment of Yusuf was necessary and also the Coach of Rangers Int’l FC Enugu, Imama Amakapabo, was picked as Yusuf’s Assistant, while Alloy Agu was retained as the team’s Goalkeepers’ Trainer.
