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NFF Announces José Peseiro As New Coach For Super Eagles

The Nigeria Football Federation has announced the appointment of José Santos Peseiro as the new Head Coach of the Senior Men National Team, Super Eagles.

The appointment is with immediate effect, subject to the signing of agreed terms between the NFF and Peseiro.

José Vitor dos Santos Peseiro, 62 last month, is a Portuguese who played as a striker in his days and has wide and varied experience coaching top clubs and national teams across four different continents, namely Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

An educationist with a degree in physical education/sports sciences, Peseiro has top-level coaching qualifications/training and has coached at Sporting Lisbon, FC Porto, Panathinaikos, Rapid Bucharest, Sporting Braga, Victoria Guimaraes, Al-Hilal, Al-Wahda, Al-Ahly Cairo, Sharjah FC, and Real Madrid.

He has also served as Head Coach of the Saudi Arabian and Venezuelan National Teams.

Peseiro is expected to lead out the Super Eagles for the first time during the upcoming tour of the United States of America, during which the three-time African champions will slug it out with Mexico and Ecuador ‘A’ Teams in prestige friendlies.

The Eagles will tango with the El Tri at the AT & T Stadium in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, 28th May before flying to New Jersey to confront Ecuador at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison on Thursday, 2nd June.

The NFF also announced that former Nigeria international forward, Finidi George, will now be 1st Assistant to Peseiro, with Salisu Yusuf is now to be 2nd Assistant as well as Head Coach of the CHAN and U23 National Teams.

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