Celebrated African Coach Hints At Talks On Taking Over As New Coach Of Super Eagles

Former coach of the senior national team of South Africa Pitso Mosimane has hinted at talks with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on picking up the job of the coach of the senior national team of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.

The Super Eagles have been without a substantive coach since the exit of Finidi George as coach three months ago leaving Austine Eguavoen in temporary charge of the team.

Eguavoen who also doubles as the technical director of the NFF will continue in his role till after the qualifiers in October, and it could actually extend in the event that the NFF fail to get a coach on permanent basis.

Sources say the NFF are actively looking for a coach and Mosimane hinted that talks were held with him, but due to some circumstances he wasn’t considered.

“The World Cup I’ve done with a country was once,” Mosimane told SABC Sport.

“So maybe with the national team, I must say that interests me more [than with a club]. And also national team, doesn’t mean [just] anyone. A National team that you think you can go to the semi-final.

“And when you go to the semi-final, go to the final and when you’re in the final, you might as well win it,” added the former Bafana Bafana coach.

“Unless it’s a club again where we need to play more in space. Saudi will always be there also, Qatar will always be there.

“We had calls with even West African countries, two! And ones I said, ‘yeah, these are the ones’. But things are done differently in those spaces,” he continued.

“You asked yourself what happened, there’s a space, the call comes back… It’s not easy to [understand], when there is space for the ministry and also space for the football federation.

“There are always clashes somewhere there, the ministry because they pay for the coach, they want this coach, the football federation want that coach. Hopefully, we’ll get one that goes together.”