Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), is set to announce the selection of Frenchman, Paul Le Guen as the new Manager of the Super Eagles today in Abuja.
It woule be recalled that Le Guen, 52, was, penultimate week, shortlisted along with Nigerian Salisu Yusuf and the Belgian Tom Sainfie for the job by the NFF technical committee.
When announced as coach, Le Guen, 52, is expected to assume duty immediately after concluding talks on his contract which is speculated to be in the region of $45,000 per month. The contract is initially for three years with chances of being renewed based on performance.
The former Oman national team coach qualified the Indomitable Lions of Cameroun for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He is also coming to the Nigerian job with a rich background of also having coached Brest, Nantes, Lyon, Rennes and Paris Saint-Germain and Glasgow Rangers in Scotland at club level.
More than 20 coaches applied for the Super Eagles post from which the NFF Technical and Development Committee shortlisted the final three.
Giovanni Solinas, Saintfiet, Hey Antoine, Mark Wotte, Yusuf, Ernesto Paulo Calvinho, Dorian Marin, Le Guen, Miodrag Jesic, Perry Hansen, Ove Pedersen, Adebayo Lateef Kola, Sylvanus Okpala, Peter Ijeh, Vladimir Petrovic-Pizon, Lodewijk de Kruif, Kenichi Yatsuhashi, Bjorn Frank Peters and Ricki Herbert are among those who applied for the vacant position.
