NFF releases shortlist for Super Eagles' next Head Coach

Photographs: NFF discharges shortlist for Super Eagles' next Head Coach

The Nigeria Football Federation has put previous Ethiopian mentor Tom Sainfiet, Super Eagles' overseer mentor Salisu Yusuf and Frenchman Paul Le Guen, who once drilled Cameroon, on a shortlist of possibility for the position of Super Eagles' Head Coach, an announcement issued today peruses.

On Friday at the Glass House, the NFF Technical and Development Committee pored over more than 20 applications before slicing the rundown to three. Among the individuals who demonstrated enthusiasm for drilling the three –time African champions are Giovanni Solinas, Saintfiet, Hey Antoine, Mark Wotte, Yusuf, Ernesto Paulo Calvinho, Dorian Marin, Le Guen, Miodrag Jesic, Perry Hansen, Ove Pedersen, Adebayo Lateef Kola, Sylvanus Okpala, Peter Ijeh, Vladimir Petrovic-Pizon, Lodewijk de Kruif, Kenichi Yatsuhashi, Bjorn Frank Peters and Ricki Herbert. Belgian Saintfiet, 43, instructed the National Teams of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Yemen, Malawi and Togo, furthermore worked with the Qatar U-17 side, Young Africans FC of Tanzania and Free State Stars FC in South Africa.

Yusuf, 54, was topped by Nigeria at U20 level, won FA Cup titles with El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri as a player and instructed top clubs Kano Pillars, El-Kanemi Warriors and Enyimba FC. He helped Super Eagles' boss Samson Siasia and Stephen Keshi (of favored memory), and was overseer mentor for two friendlies that the Eagles won against Mali and Luxembourg in Europe toward the end of May. Le Guen, 52, played for Brest, Nantes and Paris Saint Germain and won 17 tops for France, before guiding Rennes, Lyon, PSG (in France) and Glasgow Rangers (in Scotland).

He qualified the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon for the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals furthermore guided Oman. Administrator of the Technical and Development Committee, Chris Green, told NFF. "We set a criteria with which we assessed the about two dozen applications and after that conceded to the three persons that we shortlisted. The Committee will meet on Monday, eighteenth July 2016 to meet the shortlisted hopefuls and instantly name the following Super Eagles' Head Coach"