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.
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, said, “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."
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