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Augustine Eguavoen returns to Tremendous Eagles dug-out after Peseiro exit

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On 12 December 2021, Eguavoen was appointed supervisor of Nigeria on an interim foundation for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, following the departure of Gernot Rohr.

Tremendous Eagles technical director, Augustine Owen Eguavoen, has taken over the teaching function of the Nigerian Soccer workforce after Jose Peseiro’s exit, Soccernet.ng reviews.

Peseiro, 63, was appointed because the coach of the Tremendous Eagles after Nigeria’s exit from the AFCON 2021 match in Cameroon, taking workplace in Could 2022.

The Portuguese led Nigeria to the AFCON 2023 match in Ivory Coast, however his workforce fell wanting glory within the closing, with Sebastien Haller placing the nail to the coffin of the exhausted Tremendous Eagles.

The contract of the previous Porto supervisor led to February and he vacated his function on the sidelines for the Tremendous Eagles, leaving the workforce regardless of taking a pay reduce.

Soccernet.ng understands that the workforce’s technical director, Augustine Eguavoen, will take cost of the Three-time AFCON winners on an interim foundation, until a everlasting answer is sorted out.

The previous Tremendous Eagles proper wing-back was in command of the Nigerian workforce on the AFCON 2021 match in Cameroon, following the exit of the previous coach, Gernot Rohr.

The 58-year-old remained in command of the workforce after Nigeria have been knocked out of the AFCON match in Cameroon on the spherical of sixteen stage by Tunisia.

Eguavoen was the workforce’s technical director once they took a silver medal on the AFCON 2023 match in Ivory Coast.

N.B: Do you assume the NFF made the suitable selection in appointing Augustine Eguavoen? Who would you wish to see coach Nigeria completely? Go away your feedback under.

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