NFF Names Siasia As Super Eagles Coach

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the country’s prime soccer management board yesterday named ex-international, Sampson Siasia as coach of the senior National team, the Super Eagles.

Unveiling the board’s decision, spokesman of the Technical committee, Barr Christopher Green yesterday said Siasia was chosen after interviews of both nominees by the board.

The soccer house had early last week shortlisted the duo of Stephen Keshi and Sampson Siasia for the plum job of the Super Eagles Technical Adviser.

That decision came after an earlier NFF board resolution that recommended Siasia for the job, pending official unveiling.

But in what seemed a total departure from that decision, the board invited the two accomplished indigenous coaches with the most international honours, Sampson Siasia and Stephen Keshi.

Keshi, one of the longest running captains of the national team, the Super Eagles, served once as assistant coach of the same team and also handled Togolese national side to qualify for their first ever World Cup in 2006 before qualifying the Malian national side for the African Nations Cup in 2010.

Siasia had on his part tutored the nation’s Under-20 and  Under-23 sides winning silver at both the Olympic and Junior World Cup at various times.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja shortly after the interviews, Green said Siasia won the gruelling session and would be unveiled after a necessary contract details.