Sports ministry approves Jose Peseiro appointment
Felele247.com have scooped that Nigeria’s Ministry of Youth and Sports Development has finally approved the appointment of Portuguese tactician Jose Peseiro as the new head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria with Salisu Yusuf will serve as the Super Eagles assistant coach after Monday’s meeting with the president of Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick.
The Nigeria senior men national football team is without a coach after the sacking of Augustine Eguavoen and the entire coaching staffs of the team after the failure of the three times AFCON Champions to qualify for FIFA world Cup 2022 in Qatar later this year against Ghana in Abuja.
Rohr was fired by the NFF in December 2021, just weeks before the start of the AFCON in Cameroon..
World cup winning coach, Laurent Blanc, former Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde and erstwhile Netherlands defender Philip Cocu were also linked with the post.
Details of Peseiro’s contract including paperworks are almost done and official announcement would be made soon.
The Portuguese was first announced by the NFF to take over the Super Eagles after the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
Peseiro eventually did not take up the job, after Augustine Eguavoen was appointed as the interim technical adviser of the Super Eagles.
