Appointment of Super Eagles Coach, NFF and Sport Minister disagrees

The Sports Minister John Enoh and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have disagreed over who becomes the new coach of the Super Eagles.

While the NFF prefer continuity with Finidi George, the minister is backing Emmanuel Amuneke.The NFF through their technical committee were heading towards appointing Domenec Torrent, who comes highly recommended as the longtime right-hand man of Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola, to lead the Super Eagles until things went south.The NFF committee has since redone its homework and has now come up with a new wish list headed by George with Amuneke and Daniel Amokachi as options in descending order.

They back Finidi for continuity – Finidi was assistant to Peseiro when the team got to the AFCON final in February and he was also in charge in an interim capacity for the friendlies against Ghana and Mali in March.

The former Ajax Amsterdam winger is calm and unassuming, a gentleman, whom the NFF will be happy to work with.

He spoke of pressures in support of the ex-Barcelona winger, who himself has reached out to the Minister expressing his interest in the Super Eagles post.