“My gamers begged me to remain” – Jose Peseiro reveals why he took pay lower to stay Tremendous Eagles coach

Jose Peseiro took over the teaching reins of the Tremendous Eagles in Could 2022, changing Austin Eguavoen and has led them to AFCON 2024.

Tremendous Eagles head coach, Jose Santos Peseiro, has revealed the rationale behind his choice to just accept a pay lower to remain in control of Nigeria’s nationwide workforce, Soccernet.ng experiences.

The Portuguese was initially appointed Nigeria’s coach in Could 2022, after Austin Egueavoen didn’t qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. His contract expired in June 2023, earlier than his renewal was confirmed by the NFF, with the 63-year-old taking a pay lower.

Set to take the workforce to new heights on the 2024 AFCON, the ex-Porto supervisor revealed his gamers performed an enormous function in his choice to just accept a pay lower to remain in control of the workforce.

“The gamers pushed me to remain as a result of they imagine we will win the AFCON. We will win it. The gamers comprehend it. They arrive with the identical vitality, the identical perception, to struggle for the Tremendous Eagles,” the supervisor mentioned in quotes revealed by Punch.

Peseiro did nevertheless, ship a sound be aware of warning to his gamers, telling them they have to be at their finest to achieve the latter levels of the AFCON event subsequent 12 months in Cote d’Ivoire subsequent January.

“We’ll have to be at our most as a result of we all know that there’s good opposition. There’s Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Ghana and Ivory Coast. However we imagine we will do it. I imagine. And the gamers imagine,” he added.

The Tremendous Eagles have adopted “let’s do it once more” because the motto of their 2024 AFCON marketing campaign and can face hosts Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau in Group A.

The Tremendous Eagles will tackle Equatorial Guinea of their opening fixture on the Alhassan Quattara Stadium on Monday, January 14. 4 days later, they’ll face the host nation, earlier than going up in opposition to Guinea Bissau on January 22, 2024, within the ultimate group recreation.