By Victor Enyinnaya on July 13, 2016

As the appointment of a Technical Adviser for the Super Eagles by the Barrister Chris Green led Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) hots up, an insider source has told Daily Sports (www.dailysportsng.com) that the race for the plum job is reserved for expatriates, despite Salisu Yusuf’s sustained media campaign for it.

The high level source revealed that the committee is not interested in what he has been doing in the media since the window for the appointment of a high calibre technical hand for the Eagles began.

Said he: “No doubt he will be interviewed without lowering the set standard, but we know where the pendulum would swing to. He is also aware before he filed in his application. The fact remains that the country doesn’t want an indigenous coach to head Eagles for now, for very obvious and open cognate reasons.

“As distractive as that Yusuf activity could be, we are focused on the task ahead. Now that the list has been pruned down to three including him as potential assistant to any of the foreign coaches that would clinch the job, one thought he would have stopped. Though, he has the right to do all he has been doing; the committee will not be blackmailed into doing otherwise, he can only be an assistant. It was made clear that NFF would go straight to hire an expatriate to head the senior national team. We are not going back on that. Let him keep parading himself, we are not bordered.”

It was further gathered that the two foreigners on the card have rich credentials. “To say the least, the two expatriates met the criteria set by the technical committee. They will be thoroughly grilled and drilled to get all what we want. We have been cautious conducting the whole exercise so that at the end of the day, it will be one employment worthy of it. We have never lost sight on our mandate and qualities of who will lead the Eagles this time around,” the insider remarked.

Daily Sports learnt that an undisclosed oil firm that has entered into business agreement with the NFF to bankroll the payment of salaries and allowances of the Eagles foreign coach, his assistants and the backroom staff. The firm is said to have paid in substantial sum into the coffers of the Federation penultimate week.

It would be recalled that the NFF released the names of Serbian former Cameroun Manager, Goran ‘Plavi’ Slevanovic, former Ghana handler, Le Guen, and caretaker coach of the team, Salisu Yusuf for an interview which is likely to be conducted by Skype for the foreign hands who are said to have opened the link ready for the chat in case there is visa hitches.

•Photo shows Le Guen, one of the shortlisted foreign coches.

Source Daily Sports

Posted July 13, 2016

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