The Nigeria Football Federation has put former Ethiopian coach Tom
Sainfiet, Super Eagles’ caretaker coach Salisu Yusuf and Frenchman Paul
Le Guen, who once coached Cameroon, on a shortlist of candidates for the
position of Super Eagles’ Head Coach. The statement reads:
On Friday at the Glass House, the NFF Technical and
Development Committee pored over more than 20 applications before
cutting the list to three.
Among those who showed interest in coaching the three –time African
champions are Giovanni Solinas, Saintfiet, Hey Antoine, Mark Wotte,
Yusuf, Ernesto Paulo Calvinho, Dorian Marin, Le Guen, Miodrag Jesic,
Perry Hansen, Ove Pedersen, Adebayo Lateef Kola, Sylvanus Okpala, Peter
Ijeh, Vladimir Petrovic-Pizon, Lodewijk de Kruif, Kenichi Yatsuhashi,
Bjorn Frank Peters and Ricki Herbert.
Belgian Saintfiet, 43, coached the National Teams of Namibia, Zimbabwe,
Ethiopia, Yemen, Malawi and Togo, and also worked with the Qatar U-17
side, Young Africans FC of Tanzania and Free State Stars FC in South
Africa.
Yusuf, 54, was capped by Nigeria at U20 level, won FA Cup titles with
El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri as a player and coached top clubs Kano
Pillars, El-Kanemi Warriors and Enyimba FC. He assisted Super Eagles’
chiefs Samson Siasia and Stephen Keshi (of blessed memory), and was
caretaker coach for two friendlies that the Eagles won against Mali and
Luxembourg in Europe at the end of May.
Le Guen, 52, played for Brest, Nantes and Paris Saint Germain and won 17
caps for France, before coaching Rennes, Lyon, PSG (in France) and
Glasgow Rangers (in Scotland).
He qualified the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon for the 2010 FIFA World
Cup finals and also coached Oman.
Chairman of the Technical and Development Committee, Chris Green, told
NFF.
“We set a criteria with which we evaluated the nearly two dozen
applications and then agreed on the three persons that we shortlisted.
The Committee will meet on Monday, 18th July 2016 to interview the
shortlisted candidates and immediately name the next Super Eagles’ Head
Coach”
