Pinnick: New Eagles Manager May Lead Team To AFCON

Pinnick: New Eagles Manager May Lead Team To AFCON …happy with Osimhen’s recovery By Our Reporter The new Manager of the Super Eagles expected to be unveiled soon could lead the team to the forthcoming Africa Nations Cup taking place in Cameroon. The President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick who stated this on Wednesday in Lagos stressed that if the paper work of the new coach was completed in good time, he will take over immediately. This interestingly is coming just about a week after the NFF named Austin Eguavoen as interim Head Coach of the team together with five assistants and three ambassadors expected to provide technical support. “We are taking to three top coaches who can take our football to the next level. One of them gave me a good evaluation of our players in pure scientific way only on Tuesday. “The Ministry of sports is working with us on this as our supervising ministry. We spoke to some top coaches on this including Jose Mourinho. The minister also spoke with the coaches and also Mourinho. “We have confidence in the ability of Eguavoen and co but if we have a new coach early enough, he will take charge and lead Eagles to AFCON. No sentiments about it, we want the best and won’t experiment with the team.” "Mourinho’s assistants, Jose Morais and Jose Peresiro are top on the list of coaches the federation is talking to. The technical committee of the NFF, according to the federation boss, will recommend the very best to the board in the next few days and so a new Eagles coach be unveiled within one week. Pinnick also assured that plans were in top gear to ensure the new coach will not be owed just as the money being owed former coach, Gernot Rohr, will be fully paid within few days. “Our sponsors are working fully on this and we should be able to sort out Rohr fully within few days just as we intend to get the initial six month pay of the new coach before end of the year,” Pinnick added. The NFF boss also expressed delight over the speedy recovery of Eagles and Napoli striker, Victor Osimhen. “It’s fantastic news. I have spoken to him and he is eager and ready to play for us again. He is a young man and one is not surprised about the fast recovery. We are optimistic he will be fully ready to play in Cameroon,” Pinnick stressed. -newtelegraphng