Report: Blanc, Peseiro leads race for Eagles’ Job, as Valverde, Cocu also on the card

BY: BLACKCOIN

Nigeria Football Federation has lined up four foreign coaches including a former Barcelona and a former PSG coach for the Super Eagles, BSNSports com.ng reports.

According to sources close to the NFF, the federation is lining up four choices including Jose Peseiro, whom they’d lined up to take over the Super Eagles after the African Cup of Nations.

Talks are centred around five big name coaches which are gathered as Former Barcelona manager, Ernesto Valverde, former PSG and France coach, Laurent Blanc and former PSV Eindhoven manager, Phillip Cocu, former coach of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela Jose Peseiro.

The NFF board is expected to pick a new manager for the Eagles among the four and also decide the Nigerians that will work with the foreign coach. It is expected that later in the week, a decision could be reached by the NFF on the way forward for the country’s football managerial positions.

The final choice of the NFF is yet to be known as they’ve been given an ultimatum by the Ministry of Sports and Youth Development to find a foreign coach for the national team.