President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju Pinnick has confirmed that Stephen Keshi will continue as the coach of the Super Eagles, in a development that will come as a surprise to many.
The 44-year-old NFF boss has also confirmed the new set-up of the technical department of the NFF.
The embattled NFF boss was speaking about the new NFF technical department that will be led by former Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu, and confirmed that Keshi will continue as the Super Eagles coach.
“We have Shuaibu Amodu as the technical director, he was boss to Keshi. Keshi is the head coach, he has won everything and he is still going to work. ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha is the head of the technical study group and Felix Anyansi-Agwu, one of the most successful club administrators in the country today, is the head of the technical committee and with these people I don’t think you can go wrong,” Pinnick said.
This comes on the heels of Pinnick absolving the out-of-contract Stephen Keshi of any blames, rather criticizing the players for not having the right ‘attitude’ to qualify the country for the AFCON.
But it will come as a bit of surprise also, seeing that Pinnick had earlier sacked Keshi, replacing him with Amodu – albeit on an interim basis – and announcing that a foreign coach would be appointed, before Keshi was believed to have been returned on the orders of President Goodluck Jonathan.
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