President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick has confirmed that the soccer house held talks with AS Roma manager Jose Mourinho in their search for a new coach for the Super Eagles, reports Completesports.com.
The NFF are in the hunt for a new head coach for the three-time African champions following the sacking of Gernot Rohr.
Former Super Eagles defender Austine Eguavoen has been placed in temporary charge of the team pending the appointment of a substantive head coach.
Pinnick stated that the NFF consulted Mourinho, who is touted as one of the most successful coaches in football in their bid to get a top-class gaffer for the Super Eagles.
“The emphasis on the new coach is discipline. We will look at his antecedents on discipline,” Pinnick said during a parley with the media on Wednesday.
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“Secondly, we will also look at how hungry he is to win trophies because if they are hungry it supersedes so many things and if he wants to win he will instil discipline. We will look at all these things but I cannot make a pronouncement emphatically because I will be undermining my executive committee.
“So, until my executive committee comes out within the next week or so to say this is the name because the technical committee has to bring their presentation to the executive committee. It is going to be a seamless movement to the current team headed by Eguavoen.
“But we have spoken to three top coaches and Peseiro, whose name has been going around, is one of the coaches and I can tell you he is a top coach.”
He added, “We also talked to Mladen (Krstajic) but after talking to him he got a job with a top club in Israel, Maccabi Tel Aviv. You can see these are coaches that are hungry and ready to take Nigeria as a home; they are people that we know are ready to face the challenge from the 200 million Nigerians.
“They are coaches who the players cannot be bigger than and I believe we are doing everything we can and that’s why we interface with the ministry on every level.
“Of course Mourinho, I am not going to tell you we didn’t talk to Mourinho because we did and the (sports) minister also talked to Mourinho and there is nothing wrong with it.”
By Adeboye Amosu
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