Uptown Press reports that Finidi George has been appointed as the new head coach of the Super Eagles by the Nigeria Football Federation. The announcement was made by the NFF on Monday following the approval of its Technical and Development Committee’s recommendation to appoint the former winger.
George, a 52-year-old former Ajax Amsterdam and Real Betis forward, was previously serving as an assistant coach to the outgoing José Santos Peseiro. He took over as interim coach after Peseiro’s resignation and led the national team to the final of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire.
The new coach also led the team to two friendly matches in Morocco last month, where they won against Ghana with a 2-1 victory and lost to Mali with a score of 0-2.
“George, a member of the so-styled ‘Golden Generation’ that won the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Tunisia and emerged as the second most entertaining team in Nigeria’s debut at the FIFA World Cup finals in USA the same year, won 62 caps for Nigeria, including featuring at the 1994 and 1998 FIFA World Cup finals,” the NFF said in a statement.
The NFF also highlighted George’s memorable moment when he “assisted Rashidi Yekini (of blessed memory) to score Nigeria’s first-ever FIFA World Cup goal against Bulgaria in Dallas, USA on 19th June 1994.”
George has won gold, silver, and bronze medals from the 1992, 1994, 2000, and 2002 AFCON tournaments.
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