Breaking: Nff Appoints Finidi George As Head Coach Of Super Eagles

Finidi George has been promoted to the role of the head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria He was part of the backroom staff of Jose Peseiro that helped Nigeria to the runners-up finish at AFCON 2023 He was appointed this Monday on recommendation of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) via a board m eeting that held before his appointment The Board of Nigeria Football Federation on Monday approved the recommendation of its Technical and Development Committee to appoint former ace winger Finidi George as Head Coach of the Senior Men National Football Team, Super Eagles. George, who spent 20 months as assistant to Jos Santos Peseiro before the Portuguese voluntarily left the post following the accomplishment of Africa Cup of Nations runner-up position at Cote dIvoire 2023, took charge of the squad in interim capacity during two friendly matches in Morocco last month. His squad edged Ghana 2-1 in the first match, ending an 18-year winless streak against the Black Stars, but then lost 0-2 to Mali in the second game. George, a member of the so-styled Golden Generation that won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Tunisia and emerged the second most entertaining team in Nigerias 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. He also won gold, silver and bronze medals from the 1992, 1994, 2000 and 2002 AFCON tournaments. The 52-year-old former Ajax Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and Real Betis (Spain) forward, who made a scoring debut for fatherland in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Burkina Faso at the National Stadium, Lagos on 27th July 1991, also featured for Calabar Rovers and Sharks FC in the domestic scene before heading to Europe. He assisted Rashidi Yekini (of blessed memory) to score Nigerias first-ever FIFA World Cup goal against Bulgaria in Dallas, USA on 19th June 1994. George had actually scored the goal that took Nigeria to that FIFA World Cup debut, when he put Nigeria ahead against hosts Algeria in a crucial qualifier in Algiers on 8th October 1993. The match eventually ended 1-1 and earned Nigeria a ticket to the finals in America. Georges immediate task will be to guide the Super Eagles to victory in two 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches against South Africa and Benin Republic in Uyo and Abidjan respectively, in a little over five weeks. The matches are must-win encounters, with the Super Eagles lagging behind in third place in Group C of the African campaign behind Rwanda and South Africa. Copyright2024 kick442.com-Cameroon All rights reserved. This material and any other digital content on this platform may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, written, or distributed in full or in part, without written permission from our management. This site is not responsible for the content displayed by external sites The post Breaking: NFF appoints Finidi George as Head Coach of Super Eagles appeared first on KICK442 Sport News .