By Our Reporter
ess than 24 hours of the rumour about his exit, the Super Eagles Coach and Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation, Austin Eguavoen, has denied quitting his job as the interim coach of the Super Eagles after the two 2025 AFCON qualifiers against the Benin Republic and Rwanda.
Recall that Eguavoen was appointed by the NFF to take charge of the two games following the inability of the federation to secure the services of German coach, Bruno Labbadia, over what they call stringent German tax laws.
The statement announcing his appointment had read in part.“In the event, Technical Director of Nigeria Football Federation, Coach Augustine Eguavoen, will now take charge of the Super Eagles for the upcoming 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Benin Republic (Uyo, September 7) and Rwanda (Kigali, September 10).”
Eguavoen, 59 led Nigeria to an impressive 3-0 win over the Benin Republic in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, last Saturday before being held to a goalless draw in the second game of the series by Rwanda on Tuesday.
But, the news of his quiting the job soon circulated after Tuesday’s goalless draw in Kigali. He was rumoured to have stepped down as interim coach but the gaffer has denied the reports ahead of next month’s AFCON qualifiers double header against Libya.
During a media chat the Super Eagles Coachstated on arrival at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja that, “It’s quite unfortunate that people just trigger something that is not correct. And the situation we are in now, we don’t need negative stories.”
“I only talked about sitting down with the hierarchy of the federation after these two games and we will see how to go about prosecuting the next games.”
He concluded by saying that when the story first got to him he became worried and stated that whatever report had come out of that was untrue and stressed that, “I’m still very much in charge. I’m the Technical Director of the NFF, saddled with the responsibility of taking the Super Eagles at this moment.”
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