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  • Super Eagles players begged me to stay back and accept paycut

    Super Eagles players begged me to stay back and accept paycut

    Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro has revealed that the Super Eagles players begged him to stay with the team.

    Peseiro added that their pleas made him accept pay cut when NFF tabled it before him.

    Recall that the Portuguese agreed a reduction to his salary this summer so that he could remain in charge of the Super Eagles.

    Peseiro noted that he wouldn’t want to disappoint his players who wanted him to stay back and help the team win laurels.

    “The players pushed me to stay because they believe we can win (the AFCON),” he told Sky Sports.

    “We can win it. The players know it. They come with the same energy, the same belief, to fight for the Super Eagles.”

    The Super Eagles are drawn in Group A with hosts Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.

    The 63-year-old will lead the West Africans to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire in January.

  • Saudi Arabia v Nigeria: Match will be very tough – Peseiro

    Saudi Arabia v Nigeria: Match will be very tough – Peseiro

    Jose Peseiro the head coach of Nigeria senior men’s national team has said the friendly game against Saudi Arabia will be a very tough game.

    Saudi Arabia and Nigeria will slug it out in a friendly game on Friday in Portugal.

    It is the second time the Super Eagles will take on the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, following a goalless draw in a 2010 friendly.

    Incidentally, Peseiro was the man at the helm of affairs for Saudi Arabia in 2010 when they faced Nigeria.

    “Saudi was the last team to beat Argentina so I expect a hard match and also a good match for our team and we will start on the front foot against them.

    “We want to beat Saudi Arabia and Mozambique so as to prepare well for the first two games of the World Cup qualifiers because Nigeria must play the next World Cup,” Peseiro said in his press conference on Thursday.

  • NFF, Peseiro agree on contract extension

    NFF, Peseiro agree on contract extension

    The Nigeria Football Federation and Mr. Jose Santos Peseiro have reached an agreement for the latter to continue in his role as Head Coach of the Senior Men National Team of Nigeria, Super Eagles.

     

    As stipulated in the original contract, drawn in May 2022, the Portuguese has been handed the mandate to lead the Super Eagles to, in the minimum, the semi finals of the 34th Africa Cup of Nations finals taking place in Cote d’Ivoire in a few months.

     

    Peseiro has steered the Super Eagles through the qualifiers and to a ticket with a match to spare, including a 10-0 record international win against Sao Tome and Principe in Agadir, Morocco in June 2022.

     

    He has now agreed to continue in the role after accepting a pay cut on his earlier terms, with the new agreement also putting him in charge of the Super Eagles B – the home-based professionals who contest the biennial African Nations Championship.

     

    Meanwhile, the Super Eagles’ supremo has invited on-field captain William Ekong, defender Tyronne Ebuehi and Semi Ajayi, midfielders Wilfred Ndidi and Frank Onyeka, and forwards Moses Simon, Victor Osimhen and Taiwo Awoniyi, among others, to next weekend’s qualification series final-day encounter against Sao Tome and Principe in Uyo.

     

    Peseiro called three goalkeepers (including home-based Olorunleke Ojo), eight defenders, four midfielders and eight forwards for the game, slated for the Godswill Akpabio Stadium on Sunday, 10 September.

     

    Nigeria, on 12 points from their previous five matches, are already guaranteed a place in the finals, but must earn at least a point to be sure of topping the group ahead of second-placed Guinea Bissau, who are on 10 points and play at home to Sierra Leone in Bissau.

     

    Peseiro has called for the first time, Belgium-based centre-back Jordan Torunarigha and forwards Victor Boniface and Gift Orban, and there are recalls for Portugal-based left back Bruno Onyemaechi and defensive midfielder Raphael Onyedika.

     

    ALL THE INVITED PLAYERS:

     

    Goalkeepers: Francis Uzoho (Omonia FC, Cyprus); Olorunleke Ojo (Enyimba FC); Adebayo Adeleye (Hapoel Jerusalem, Israel)

     

    Defenders: Olaoluwa Aina (Nottingham Forest, England); Tyronne Ebuehi (Empoli FC, Italy); Jordan Torunarigha (KAA Gent, Belgium); William Ekong (PAOK FC, Greece); Semi Ajayi (West Bromwich Albion, England); Calvin Bassey (Fulham FC, England); Jamilu Collins (Cardiff FC, Wales); Bruno Onyemaechi (Boavista FC, Portugal)

     

    Midfielders: Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City, England); Raphael Onyedika (Club Brugge, Belgium); Joe Ayodele-Aribo (Southampton FC, England); Frank Onyeka (Brentford FC, England)

     

    Forwards: Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City, England); Samuel Chukwueze (AC Milan, Italy); Moses Simon (FC Nantes, France); Ademola Lookman (Atalanta FC, Italy); Victor Osimhen (Napoli FC, Italy); Taiwo Awoniyi (Nottingham Forest, England); Gift Orban (KAA Gent, Belgium); Victor Boniface (Bayern Leverkusen, Germany)

  • NFF issues Peseiro three-day ultimatum to accept pay cut or quit job

    NFF issues Peseiro three-day ultimatum to accept pay cut or quit job

    The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF ) has given Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro a three-day ultimatum to accept a pay cut and renew his contract.

    The NFF made this known through its technical committee, It stated that the Portuguese will bid farewell to his job if he fails to make a decision within three days.

    Chairman of the technical committee, Sheriff Rabiu Inuwa hinted that the NFF will appoint a caretaker coach to take charge of the Super Eagles’ 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Sao Tome and Principe next month and then start the search for a substantive head coach afterward if Peseiro refused to respond to their request.

    The 63-year-old’s previous contract expired at the end of last month and he has expressed his desire to lead the Super Eagles to the 2023 AFCON finals in Cote d’Ivoire.

    The former Venezuela and Saudi Arabia coach is however not willing to accept a reduction on his $70,000 salary.

    Peseiro took charge of the Super Eagles in May 2022.

    There are strong indications that the NFF currently owes the tactician for a number of months but have still told him to accept the pay cut or bid farewell to the job.

     

  • Super Eagles coach, Peseiro willing to accept pay cut

    Super Eagles coach, Peseiro willing to accept pay cut

    Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro has shown willigness to accept pay cut to continue as the Super Eagles manager.

    Peseiro currently earns $70,000 per month on his contract which expires in June.

    However, there are speculations that Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF) could end his contract at the expiration in June owing to the big salary he earns.

    It was gathered  that the Ibrahim Gusau-led NFF board is struggling to meet up with Peseiro’s huge salary, which was negotiated by the Amaju Pinnick board.

    Initially, it was believed that the Eagles handler’s salary would be paid by the Presidency. But that has not been the case, with the coach being owed six months’ arrears.

    The only other option available to the NFF is that if Peseiro agrees to a pay cut, that will form a benchmark for whoever agrees to take up the job in the future

  • Algeria 2023: Peseiro charges Golden Eaglet to grab World Cup ticket

    Algeria 2023: Peseiro charges Golden Eaglet to grab World Cup ticket

    Super Eagles head coach, Jose Peseiro has called on the Golden Eaglets players to go all out to defeat Burkina Faso and earn a World Cup ticket.

    The Eaglet Burkina Faso tie comes up Thursday night at 8pm in Constantine, Algeria.

    The Golden Eaglets and Young Stallions will trade tackles in a quarter-final clash at the ongoing 2023 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations in Algeria.

    Peseiro has sent a message to the youngsters to come out victorious in the contest.

    “Wishing the Nigerian U17 team the very best of luck in their upcoming quarter-finals match against Burkina Faso.

    ”Play with determination and bring home the win, the Portuguese wrote on his Twitter handle.

    The encounter slated for the Nelson Mandela Stadium, Algiers will start at 8pm Nigerian time.

    The winners and three other countries will hoist Africa’s flag at the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

  • NFF speaks on sacking Super Eagles coach, Jose Peseiro

    NFF speaks on sacking Super Eagles coach, Jose Peseiro

    The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has made it clear that it doesn’t have any intentions to sack  the Super Eagles coach  Jose Peseiro.

    Recall that Peseiro tutored the Super Eagles to a 4-0 loss to the Selecao of Portugal on Thursday night in Lisbon, Portugal’s capital.

    Bruno Fernandes scored  the first goal of the encounter inside 9 minute of the encounter before scoring the second gfrom the penalty spot.

    Upon resumption, twice in the second half,  Gonzalo Ramos and Joao Mario added more goals in the closing stages of the encounter to finish the thrashing of the Nigerian team.

    Jose Peseiro has only been in charge of the Super Eagles for five months.

    In the seven matches he has taken charge of, the three-time African champions have won just two and lost five.

    The meek display from Peseiro’s team has led to rumblings for the Portuguese coach to be pushed closer to the exit door.

    But a high-ranking NFF official told ESPN: “He has just started and we need to be patient with him.

    “He has also won the two games that were important, that is the qualifiers for the Nations Cup. Friendlies are just friendlies, and we will judge him on the qualifiers.”

    The Portuguese team is drawn in group H alongside Ghana, Uruguay and South Korea.