Eguavoen Shouldn’t Be Super Eagles’ Coach And Technical Director At Same Time – Siasia

Eguavoen Shouldn’t Be Super Eagles’ Coach And Technical Director At Same Time – Siasia

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Former Super Eagles coach, Samson Siasia has called on the Nigeria Football Federation to prioritise hiring a local manager for the national team.

Siasia gave the advice in Abuja during a novelty football match honouring Shehu Dikko, Chairman of the National Sports Commission on Friday.

The Bayelsa born ex Nigeria led this out, after Super Eagles secured a spot at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, led by a local coach, Austin Eguavoen.

Siasia believed that hiring a foreign coach would be a mistake.

He also called on his former teammate, Eguavoen to resign from his role as interim coach of the Super Eagles, and focus on his primary job as the technical director of the NFF.

He said: “We don’t want any foreign coach here because they are not coming to do anything.

“We have enough good materials at home that we should not be talking about hiring a foreign coach.

“As for Austin Eguavoen’s future with the Super Eagles, I will suggest that we wait a while to see how the team will be. It is a very young team.

“Eguavoen has a job already as the technical director. He should resign as Super Eagles manager and concentrate on his job.

“He cannot hold two positions at the same time. He should actually decide on which one to hold and leave the other.”

Siasia completed a five-year ban imposed by FIFA for a match-fixing allegation.

The ban, initially a lifetime one, was reduced on appeal to five years by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) in 2019.