By Victor Kanayo
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)has retained Austin Eguavoen as the interim head coach of the Super Eagles.
This was disclosed in a statement by the NFF Communications department on Thursday evening in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
Part of the statement reads, “The Executive Committee of Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday approved the recommendation of its Technical and Development Sub-Committee for the Federation’s Technical Director, Coach Augustine Eguavoen to continue in his role as Head Coach of the Super Eagles, and lead the team in its 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Libya next month.
“The 58-year-old, in temporary charge of the squad had led three times previously, steered the three-time African champions to a 3-0 defeat of Benin Republic and scoreless draw with Rwanda in Matchdays 1 and 2 earlier this month.
“Eguavoen and the current technical crew that also includes Fidelis Ilechukwu, Daniel Ogunmodede, Olatunji Baruwa and Tomaz Zorec will also take charge of the Super Eagles B team for the qualifying campaign for next year’s African Nations Championship, otherwise known as CHAN.”
Also, the NFF has announced that coach Justin Magudu will take charge of the country’s senior women’s team, Super Falcons after the departure of American Randy Waldrum few weeks ago.
The Super Falcons’ next big engagement is the Women Africa Cup of Nations finals, taking place in Morocco in the summer of next year.
Waldrum resigned his role as substantive Super Falcons coach following the team’s abysmal performance at the 2024 Paris Olympics outing, though he claimed that his decision to quit was due to his wife’s health condition.
