{"id":3571,"date":"2024-03-02T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2024-03-02T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T11:28:59","slug":"nigeria-appoint-augustine-eguavoen-as-interim-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Appoint Augustine Eguavoen As Interim Head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) has named Augustine Eguavoen, a former Super Eagles coach, as interim Head Coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This decision follows the departure of the previous head coach, Jose Peseiro, whose contract expired the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Peseiro&#8217;s leadership, the Super Eagles reached the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), ultimately losing to Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eguavoen, 58, is set to lead the team during the March international window.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-e0c6ebe34c75b5de40c0a5fd1eed9a1b ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB1l0wBm1Gg?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This isn&#8217;t Eguavoen&#8217;s first time coaching the Super Eagles. He previously served as caretaker coach in 2005, replaced Lars Lagerback in 2010, and stepped in for Gernot Rohr in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also has experience leading the team to a bronze medal finish at the 2006 AFCON and making it to the Round of 16 in the 2021 tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) has named Augustine Eguavoen, a former Super Eagles coach, as interim Head Coach. This decision follows the departure of the previous head coach, Jose Peseiro, whose contract expired the day before. Under Peseiro&#8217;s leadership, the Super Eagles reached the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), ultimately losing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,11],"tags":[1194,172],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-sports","tag-augustine-eguavoen","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}