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The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced that it has reached an statement with German tactician, Bruno Labbadia, to go the Head Coach of Nigeria’s Senior Men National Team, Super Eagles.
A connection by Ademola Olajire, NFF’s Director of Communications, quoted NFF General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi, arsenic saying successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday that Labbadia’s assignment was with contiguous effect.
“The NFF Executive Committee has approved the proposal of its Technical and Development Sub-Committee to name Bruno Labbadia arsenic the Head Coach of the Super Eagles.
“The assignment is with contiguous effect,” Sanusi said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the 58-year-old gaffer was calved successful Darmstadt, Germany connected Feb. 8, 1966.
Labbadia won 2 caps for Die Mannschaft successful his playing vocation that took him done clubs specified arsenic home-town squad Darmstadt 98, Hamburger SV, and FC Kaiserslautern.
Others include; Bayern Munich, FC Cologne, Werder Bremen, Armenia Bielefeld and Karlsruher SC.
He triumphed successful the German Bundesliga with Bayern Munich arsenic a subordinate successful 1994.
He coached celebrated names Hertha Berlin and VfB Stuttgart this decade, and previously, VfL Wolfsburg, Hamburger SV, Bayer Leverkusen, among others, and holds a UEFA Pro License.
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He is lone the sixth German, aft Karl-Heinz Marotzke (who had 2 stints betwixt 1970 and 1974), Gottlieb Göller (1981), Manfred Höner (1988-1989), Berti Vogts (2007-2008) and Gernot Rohr (2016-2021) to pb the Super Eagles.
Höner led the Eagles to runner-up presumption astatine the 1988 Africa Cup of Nations, portion Rohr qualified and led Nigeria to the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals successful Russia
Labbadi’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 (Sept. 7 successful Uyo) and Rwanda (Sept. 10 successful Kigali).
Four different matches would reason the qualifying contention pursuing successful the months of October and November.
List of Super Eagle’s coaches successful history
John Finch (England) – 1949
Daniel Anyiam (Nigeria) – 1954-1956; 1964-1965
Les Courtier (England) – 1956-1960
Moshe Beit Halevi (Israel) – 1960-1961
George Vardar (Hungary) – 1961-1963
Joey Blackwell (England) – 1963 – 1964
József Ember (Hungary) – 1965-1968
Sabino Barinaga (Spain) – 1968-1969
Peter ‘Eto’ Amaechina (Nigeria) – 1969-1970
Karl-Heinz Marotzke (Germany) – 1970-1971; 1974
Jorge Penna (Brazil) – 1972-1973
Jelisavčić ‘Father Tiko’ Tihomir (Yugoslavia) – 1974-1978
Otto Glória (Brazil) – 1979-1982
Gottlieb Göller (Germany) – 1981
Adegboye Onigbinde (Nigeria) – 1983-1984; 2002
Chris Udemezue (Nigeria) – 1984-1986
Patrick Ekeji (Nigeria) – 1985
Paul Hamilton (Nigeria) – 1987; 1989
Manfred Höner (Germany) – 1988-1989
Clemens Westerhof (Netherlands) – 1989-1994
Amodu Shaibu (Nigeria) – 1994-1995;1996-1997; 2001-2002; 2008-2010
Johannes Bonfrere (Netherlands) – 1995-1996; 1999-2001
Philippe Troussier (France) – 1997
Monday Sinclair (Nigeria) – 1997-1998
Bora Milutinović (Yugoslavia) – 1998
Thijs Libregts (Netherlands) – 1999
Christian Chukwu (Nigeria) – 2002-2005
Augustine Eguavoen (Nigeria) – 2005-2007; 2010; 2022
Berti Vogts (Germany) – 2007-2008
Lars Lagerbäck (Sweden) – 2010
Samson Siasia (Nigeria) – 2010-2011; 2016
Stephen Keshi (Nigeria) – 2011-2014; 2015
Sunday Oliseh (Nigeria) – 2015-2016
Gernot Rohr (Germany) – 2016-2021
José Peseiro (Portugal) – 2022-2024
Finidi George (Nigeria) – 2024
Bruno Labbadia (Germany) – 2024-?.
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