The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has sacked Stephen Keshi, coach of the country’s national team, the Super Eagles.
The
Cable reports that the decision was made Wednesday night by the
executive committee of the newly constituted Nigeria Football
Federation, at a meeting at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.
Keshi, will
now be replaced by Shaibu Amodu, a former coach of the team. He will be
supported by Salisu Yusuf, Gbenga Ogunbote and Aloysius Agu. Garba
Lawal, a former player will serve as the team ‘s coordinator.
Amodu
as a caretaker coach, will take charge of the team for the last two
matches in the qualifying round for the 2015 African Cup of Nations.
Keshi’s
three-year contract with NFF actually expired at the end of the World
Cup in Brazil, where he led the team to the second round of the
competition, just after winning the African Cup of Nations.
The
team have had a run of bad results since then, losing to Sudan and Congo
in the Group A qualifiers and drawing with South Africa. The team
rccorded a 3-1 victory over Sudan in Abuja on Wednesday.
But the
NFF executives did not seem to be impressed to give Keshi a new
contract, more so since Keshi had boasted that he has several African
countries waiting to hire him.
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