Sports Minister John Enoh has said the new Super Eagles head coach will be unveiled in the next two weeks. The position has remain vacant since the expiration of Jose Peseiro’s contract after the AFCON in Ivory Coast.
Finidi George has handled the team on an interim basis while the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) shops for a substantial replacement.
“What I can assure is the senior national team will have a new coach in the next one week or at most two weeks,” Enoh said in an interview with Channels Sports.
“Unfortunately, the senior national team doesn’t have a coach. We played two friendlies and had just Finidi George oversee those two matches.
“The first responsibility of getting a coach lies with the NFF and I have been in touch with the NFF because I think Nigerians didn’t expect that after AFCON and after the contract with coach Peseiro came to an end and wasn’t renewed, that it will take as long and not have a coach yet.
“The campaign for the next World Cup has started and we didn’t start well, it was a shaky one and therefore there’s a lot of mileage to cover,” Enoh added.
“We didn’t qualify for the last World Cup and can’t afford not to be at the next edition.”
The Super Eagles drew their first two FIFA World Cup qualifiers with Lesotho and Zimbabwe last December, and will lock horns with the Bafana Bafana of South Africa in their next qualifying game in June.
