NFF Banks On $1.5million Lifeline For Foreign Coach

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is  now banking on a sum of $1.5 million from a sponsor to cover the salaries of a new foreign coach for the country.
The cash is expected this week and if it came through, NFF could appoint a new coach as early as next week, Tidesports has learnt.
The NFF is broke and the sports ministry has made it abundantly clear that the government would not help out with paying for an expatriate coach.
The NFF are known to have sounded out a bank and an oil company to pay for the new coach, who will lead Nigeria through a difficult 2018 World Cup qualifying group that has Algeria, Cameroon and Zambia.
It would be recalled that a major telephone company bankrolled the salaries of German coach Berti Vogts between 2007 and 2008, while a presidential task force was responsible for the salaries of the country’s last foreign coach, Lars Lagerback, for the 2010 World Cup.