The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reportedly appointed Augustine Eguavoen as the interim coach of the men’s national team, Super Eagles following the resignation of former coach Jose Peseiro.
This will be the fourth time Eguavoen popularly known in his playing days as Cerezo will be managing the national team.
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Recall that Eguavoen took the Eagles to the 2021 edition of the Nations Cup where the team crashed out in the round of 16 after losing to Tunisia. Peseiro may have hit the bad books of some but he was able to improve on the achievement of 2021 AFCON by taking the Eagles to the final in Cote d Ivoire where they finished as second best after losing to the hosts in the final.
other periods Eguavoen was in charge include 2006 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, where the team won a bronze medal, beating Senegal in the third-place play-off. Weeks later, Eguavoen was sacked in April 2006.
In June 2010, the NFF asked Eguavoen to replace Swedish Lars Lagerbäck until he decided on his future plans.
He was brought in as caretaker manager but said that he has no intention of submitting an application to take the role on a permanent basis.
Eguavoen was also appointed as the head coach of the Nigeria national under-23 football team in August 2010, but failed to qualify for the 2012 London Olympic Games after his team was knocked out in the group stage.
On 5 December 2011, he resigned from his job following the failure to secure the Olympics ticket.
Eguavoen was again appointed manager of Nigeria on an interim basis for the 2021 AFCON on 12 December 2021, following the departure of Gernot Rohr.
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Since the departure of Jose Peseiro four former internationals have had their names thrown up as possible replacement for the Portuguese coach namely Austin Eguavoen, Emmanuel Amuneke who was successful with U-17 side and who was credited for tinkering the likes of Victor Osimhen into super shape, Finidi George current Enyimba coach who was one of the assistants of Jose Peseiro and Sunday Oliseh who led Eagles to 2016 CHAN in Rwanda but failed to survive the group stage and resigned his appointment afterwards following brouhaha with the NFF.