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THe Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Ibrahim Galadma, has expressed confidence that the technical officials headed for London to interview coaches for the Super Eagles job, would return with a probable name.
THe Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association, Ibrahim Galadma, has expressed confidence that the technical officials headed for London to interview coaches for the Super Eagles job, would return with a probable name.
He confirmed to out correspondent on Tuesday, in a telephone interview, that four coaches had been short-listed by the FA's Technical Committee.
According to him, Chairman of the FA's Technical Committee, Suleiman David, and another board member, Sam Sam Jaja, were due to leave for London on Tuesday night.
He also said arrangements have been made for the coaches to converge on London, to make the interview easy.
Galadima was optimistic that the team would return with a positive response, and the report will serve as the basis for further decisions.
He added that he had a meeting with Austin Eguavoen, Samson Siasia, Daniel Amokachi and Ike Shorumu over their appointments in Lagos on Tuesday.
He denounced insinuations that there was a friction among the four ex-Super Eagles players, saying that specific responsibilities would be assigned to each of them.
Galadima stressed that the details of the working relations between the coaches would be worked out to minimise any distractions or misunderstanding in the team.
'They would be leaving for London this night, and we expect that the interview will be successful.
'But I can tell you that NFA will not hesitate to act fast as soon as the report of the team is made available to the board," he added.
The Punch, Wednesday, July 13, 2005