‘Eguavoen Retention Big Boost For Super Eagles’ 2022 World Cup Spot Quest’ –Okosieme

Ndubuisi Okosieme, a former Nigeria winger has hailed the Nigeria Soccer Federation’s determination to retain Austine Eguavoen as Tremendous Eagles’ interim Technical Adviser and discarding its earlier plan to have interaction an expatriate head coach.

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The NFF has discarded it’s earlier plan to rent Portuguese coach, Jose Peseiro, and prolonged the tenure of Austine Egiavoen because the NFF Technical Director/ interim Tremendous Eagles Technical Adviser, to steer the three-time African champions previous their West African archrivals, the Black Stars of Ghana, within the ultimate spherical of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup African qualifiers. Emmanuel Amuneke has been contracted because the Tremendous Eagles’ Chief Coach.

1988 AFCON silver medalist, Okosieme, informed Completesports.com solely that the NFF has toed the road of ‘continuity and perception in their very own’ with Monday’s announcement of coach Augustine Eguavoen’s retention and bolstering of the Eagles’ technical crew with the addition of Amuneke.

“Senegal, who gained the Nations Cup in opposition to favourites, Egypt, are being coached by an indigenous coach. Identical Senegal underneath a house grown coach eradicated Cameroon who’re the hosts,” Okosieme informed Completesports.com.

“Nobody is aware of the home soccer and its gamers higher than their very own coaches. With perception and encouragement, similar to Senegal FA did, the house grown coaches will all the time ship.

“On this premise, I’m delighted with determination of the NFF to retain Eguavoen because the Tremendous Eagles Technical Director/ interim Technical Adviser. I’m additionally proud of the complete mixture of the Tremendous Eagles’ crew which has skilled former worldwide, Emmanuel Amuneke, as Chief Coach, amongst others.”

Okosieme added: “That is what now we have been speaking about over the time. Continuity is the spring on which success in sports activities revolves. All of us noticed the large enchancment within the Tremendous Eagles’ play duriing the 2021 Nations Cup.

“Although it was painful that their finest was not sufficient to take them to the title, but when they step up their recreation, which I consider they might, given the calibre of coaches now in cost, choosing the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup ticket on the expense of Black Stars of Ghana gained’t be a mission inconceivable,” Okosieme careworn.

In a nostalgia, the previous Flash Flamingoes of Benin winger felt Nigerians are usually not honest to Maduka Okoye who’s being vilified within the aftermath kf the Tremendous Eagles’ 1-0 defeat to The Carthage Eagles of Tunisia within the AFCON 2021 Spherical of 16.

“There have been 11 gamers on the pitch. Earlier than the ball acquired to the Eagles objective space, it first handed the opposite 10 gamers who should have stopped it. A workforce wins collectively and lose collectively. So why single Maduka out?,” Okosieme querried.