Over recent weeks, the NFF have been interviewing several coaches to take over the Super Eagles and after speaking to several candidates have drawn up a shortlist. Mr Yusuf, former Ethiopian coach Tom Sainfiet, and Frenchman Paul Le Guen, who once coached Cameroon, are the three candidates it will now consider.
Yesterday, the NFF technical and development committee pored over more than 20 applications before cutting the list to three. Among those who showed interest in coaching are Giovanni Solinas, Saintfiet, Hey Antoine, Mark Wotte, Yusuf, Ernesto Paulo Calvinho, Dorian Marin, Le Guen, Miodrag Jesic, Perry Hansen, Ove Pedersen, Adebayo Lateef Kola, Sylvanus Okpala, Peter Ijeh, Vladimir Petrovic-Pizon, Lodewijk de Kruif, Kenichi Yatsuhashi, Bjorn Frank Peters and Ricki Herbert.
Belgian Saintfiet, 43, coached the national teams of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Yemen, Malawi and Togo and also worked with the Qatar U-17 side, Young Africans FC of Tanzania and Free State Stars FC in South Africa. Yusuf, 54, was capped by Nigeria at U20 level, won FA Cup titles with El-Kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri as a player and coached top clubs Kano Pillars, El-Kanemi Warriors and Enyimba FC.
He assisted Super Eagles’ chiefs Samson Siasia and Stephen Keshi and was caretaker coach for two friendlies that the Eagles won against Mali and Luxembourg in Europe at the end of May. Le Guen, 52, played for Brest, Nantes and Paris Saint Germain and won 17 caps for France, before coaching Rennes, Lyon, PSG and Glasgow Rangers (in Scotland).
Chairman of the NFF's technical and development committee, Chris Green, said: “We set a criteria with which we evaluated the nearly two dozen applications and then agreed on the three persons that we shortlisted. The Committee will meet on Monday, 18th July 2016 to interview the shortlisted candidates and immediately name the next Super Eagles’ head coach.”
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