Augustine Eguavoen was in charge of the Super Eagles at the AFCON 2021 tournament in Cameroon after the dismissal of Gernot Rohr.
The Nigeria Football Federation have labelled the appointment of former Super Eagles right-back, Augustine Eguavoen as the interim head coach of the Nigerian national team as a joke taken too far, Soccernet.ng reports.
Eguavoen, 58, has been NFF’s Technical Director since 2020 and led the Nigerian team to a round of sixteen defeat against Tunisia at the 2021 AFCON tournament.
Portuguese tactician, Jose Peseiro, led the three-time AFCON Champions to a second-place finish at the AFCON 2023 tournament in Ivory Coast, but his contract expired at the end of last month.
Following the exit of the 63-year-old, it was widely reported that Augustine Eguavoen will be in charge of the Nigerian football team pending the time a permanent solution is sorted.
As per The Nation Online, the news of Eguaveon taking over on an interim basis is completely false, and their source was quoted saying;
“There’s nothing for Eguavoen as far as I know, and, in fact, nobody ever mentioned him in any capacity for the Super Eagles. I think those guys are just joking. Nobody has mentioned Eguavoen as Super Eagles’ interim manager.”
Several names have been linked with the vacant position aside from Eguaoveon. Enyimba’s NPFL winning coach and Peseiro’s assistant – Finidi George, FIFA U-17 World Cup winner with the Golden Eaglets in 2015 – Emmanuel Amuneke, and Samson Sia Sia the prominent figures linked with the job of taking over the Nigerian national team.
The Nigerian Football Federation has yet to make an official statement on who will be in charge of the Super Eagles during the next International break coming up between March 18th and March 26th.
