Former Real Madrid assistant manager, Jose Peseiro has given
a reason he did not become the head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria.
Recall that the NFF had announced Peseiro as the next
substantive coach of the Super Eagles, only a week after Augustine Eguavoen was
put in charge on an interim basis following the sacking of Gernot Rohr a few
months ago.
Eguavoen stepped down from the Super Eagles interim coaching
job immediately after Tunisia knocked Nigeria out of the 2021 Africa Cup of
Nations, AFCON, in Cameroon.
However, the NFF on Monday explained why Peseiro would no
longer take over the Super Eagles and retained Eguavoen to continue as head
coach, while also drafting in former international, Emmanuel Amuneke, to assist
him ahead of Nigeria’s FIFA World Cup qualifiers with Ghana in March.
But Peseiro has now confirmed that he has failed to reach an
agreement with the NFF over becoming the substantive coach of the Super Eagles,
revealing that a deal did not materialize due to financial issues and clauses
in the proposed contract.
Writing on Instagram, Peseiro said: “After several weeks of
negotiations, during which several news came out, on the part of the Nigerian
Football Federation, that I would be the coach of their national team, from the
end of AFCON 2021, a fact that I never confirmed, these were not materialized
due to disagreement regarding contractual clauses and financial matters”.
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