Nigeria still looking for foreign coach
First Published: Sep 30, 2004
Nigeria Football Association (NFA) have approved a new two-year deal for coach Christian Chukwu but are still hoping to sign a foreign coach.
Nigeria Football Association (NFA) have approved a new two-year deal for coach Christian Chukwu but are still hoping to sign a foreign coach.
"We will still engage a foreign coach for the team after we have secured a firm sponsorship that will foot the bills of the new coach," board spokesman Olu Amadason said Thursday.
Plans to make former England captain Bryan Robson national coach fell through last November when sports minister Musa Mohammed said Nigeria could not afford him.
Chukwu was named Nigeria coach in August, 2002 and his contract ended last month. He led the Super Eagles to a third-place finish at the African Nations Cup in Tunisia in Febraury.
And they lead Group 4 of the qualifying campaign for both the 2006 World Cup and the Nations Cup.
Under the new deal Chukwu will earn 800,000 naira (about 6,000 US dollars) a month.
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