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Peseiro To Receive N20m Monthly As Super Eagles Head Coach

Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro has reportedly reached an agreement with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for a monthly salary of $50,000 (about N20.950, 000) to coach the Super Eagles.

The former Venezuela national team head coach was recommended to the NFF by AS Roma manager Jose Mourinho and according to sources close to the Federation is likely to be unveiled within the month after he might have signed the proposed four-year contract.

The NFF are considering new coaches for the Super Eagles vacant role with the likes of Philip Cocu, Joao Conceicao, Ernesto Vervalde.

It must be noted that the quoted figure of N20m is Peseiro’s demand as salary and not a confirmation that his appointment is cast in stone. The other elite coaches under consideration by the NFF will unarguably command higher salaries.

Meanwhile the NFF had confirmed the appointment of Salisu Yusuf to work on the senior national team as first assistant coach to the incoming foreign coach and woud also handle the home-based Super Eagles side and the U-23 Eagles.

Enyimba gaffer and former Super Eagles winger Finidi George will serve as the second assistant coach.

Finidi George turns 51 today (15 April). The onetime Ajax and Real Betis star was born in 1971.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.