The technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Austine Eguavoen will be available to assist the new coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Eguavoen who is the technical director of the NFF held the position as head of the team in interim capacity all through the qualifiers for the AFCON, where the team made it with two games to spare.
Chelle will now take over as the coach with the upcoming world cup qualifiers games in March his first assignment at the helm. It will be the first game of his short term deal which covers the period of the world cup qualifiers that ends in October.
He will come with two of his assistants with the Nigerian coaches who are presently handling the CHAN team expected to also be a part of the crew. Eguavoen will also be a part of the crew.
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” He (Eguavoen) is the technical director and it’s normal for the new coach (Chelle) to work closely with him. It’s more imperative because he handled the team all through the AFCON qualifiers. It’s nothing new”, a chieftain of the NFF revealed.
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