Former Super Eagles winger Finidi George has been named by the Nigeria Football Federation as the senior men’s national team’s new head coach.
The 52-year-old former Real Betis and Ajax Amsterdam attacker was given the reins after the NFF Board approved the suggestion of its Technical and Development Committee, according to a statement released on Monday.
Following the Super Eagles’ thrilling run to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations final in Cote d’Ivoire, José Santos Peseiro, a Portuguese tactician, stepped down, and Finidi George, who had worked as his assistant for 20 months, took over as temporary coach.
George supervised two friendly matches in Morocco last month while serving as temporary manager. The squad won 2-1 against Ghana to snap an 18-year winless drought, but then lost 0-2 to Mali.
“George, a member of the so-styled ‘Golden Generation’ that won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Tunisia and emerged as the second most entertaining team in Nigeria’s debut at the FIFA World Cup finals in USA the same year, won 62 caps for Nigeria, including featuring at the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cup finals,” the NFF statement read. [CONTINUE READING HERE]
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