The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), has shortlisted three managers for the role of head coach of the Super Eagles.
A statement by the NFF on Friday in Abuja listed the three coaches to include Super Eagles’ caretaker coach Salisu Yusuf, who took charge of two international friendlies against Mali and Luxembourg.
The others are former Ethiopia coach Tom Saintfiet, and Frenchman Paul Le Guen, who once coached Cameroon.
Le Guen is a former France international, who has handled Cameroon in the past, while Sainfiet also took charge of Namibia, Togo, Malawi and Zimbabwe on the continent.
“We set a criteria with which we evaluated the nearly two dozen applications and then agreed on the three persons that we shortlisted,” chairman of the Technical and Development Committee, Chris Green, told NFF website.
“The Committee will meet on Monday, 18th July 2016 to interview the shortlisted candidates and immediately name the next Super Eagles’ head coach.”
Among those who showed interest in coaching the Super Eagles are Giovanni Solinas, Saintfiet, Hey Antoine, Mark Wotte, Yusuf, Ernesto Paulo Calvinho, Dorian Marin, and Le Guen.
Others are Miodrag Jesic, Perry Hansen, Ove Pedersen, Adebayo Lateef Kola, Sylvanus Okpala and Peter Ijeh.
The rest are Vladimir Petrovic-Pizon, Lodewijk de Kruif, Kenichi Yatsuhashi, Bjorn Frank Peters and Ricki Herbert,” the statement disclosed.
Speaking on the development, Green, said the shortlist was on the basis of a set of criteria.
“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 now meet on July 18 to interview the shortlisted candidates and immediately name the next Super Eagles’ Head Coach,” he said.
The Eagles have been without a head coach since February, when Sunday Oliseh resigned from the job.
