Breaking: Le Guen picked as Super Eagles’ coach

It has been confirmed by The PUNCH that the Nigeria Football Federation have chosen Frenchman, Paul Le Guen as the next Super Eagles’ coach.


Le Guen was selected out of three that had been shortlisted for the position- Le Guen, Salisu Yusuf and Tom Saintfiet. The announcement will be made to the public on July 18.

While the Eagles manager is being confirmed, the position of assistant coach has taken a new turn as the federation could seek an alternative person to work in place of Yusuf who worked as one of the assistants to Sunday Oliseh.

An official said, “As it is now the position of the deputy has been thrown open because Yusuf is still insisting that he would not work as an assistant to Le Guen. Those who worked on their entries picked the Frenchman and with the hope that Yusuf could learn a lot from him for the immediate future but he (Yusuf) appears to have some other ideas so the federation will now have to consider a new person altogether to replace Yusuf.”