Five major achievements of new Super Eagles' coach, Labbadia

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Bruno Labbadia arsenic the caller Head Coach of Nigeria’s Super Eagles.

The 58-year-old past coached VfB Stuttgart successful 2023. A striker during his playing days, Labbadia featured for respective clubs, including FC Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen, and Bayern Munich, during an eventful career.

Here are 5 cardinal achievements of Labbadia’s illustrious career:

1. Extensive playing career:

Labbadia played for apical German clubs, including Bayern Munich, wherever helium won the Bundesliga rubric successful 1994. His preferred enactment is the 4-3-3 system, showing his capable blend of modern football.

2. Bundesliga Coaching Stints:

Labbadia has managed respective Bundesliga clubs, specified arsenic precocious crowned champions, Bayer Leverkusen, Hertha Berlin, VfB Stuttgart, and Hamburger SV, gaining immense coaching experience.

3. Trophy cabinet:

Labbadia has 2 large trophies successful his cabinet, some arsenic a player. He won the DFB-Pokal successful 1989-90 with 1. FC Kaiserslautern and the Bundesliga successful 1993-94 with FC Bayern Munich.

4. UEFA pro license:

He holds a UEFA Pro License, the highest coaching certification successful European football, reflecting his method expertise. This ranks him among the apical managers successful the crippled today.

5. International experience:

He earned 2 caps for the German nationalist team, showcasing his talents astatine the planetary level. These caps came astatine a clip erstwhile the German squad was highly competitory with highly talented footballers. He besides scored six goals for the West Germany U21 broadside during his stint.

Labbadia is the sixth German to manager the Super Eagles, pursuing the likes of Berti Vogts and Gernot Rohr, and is tasked with starring Nigeria to occurrence successful upcoming competitions.

The erstwhile FC Köln boss’s contiguous situation is to instrumentality complaint of the three-time African champions for 2 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matches against Benin Republic (Saturday 7th successful Uyo) and Rwanda (Tuesday, 10th September successful Kigali), with 4 different matches to reason the qualifying contention successful October and November.