NFF banks on $1.5m lifeline for foreign coach
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) are now banking on a sum of $1.5 million from a sponsor to cover the salaries of a new foreign coach for the country according to a reliable source.
The cash is expected this week and if it came through, Nigeria could appoint a new coach as early as next week.
The NFF are broke and the sports ministry has made it abundantly clear the government will not help out with paying for an expatriate coach.
The NFF are known to have sounded out a bank and an oil company to pay for the new coach, who will lead Nigeria through a difficult 2018 World Cup qualifying group that has Algeria, Cameroun and Zambia.
Earlier, a major telephone company bankrolled the salaries of German coach Berti Vogts between 2007 and 2008, while a presidential task force was responsible for the salaries of the country’s last foreign coach, Lars Lagerback, for the 2010 World Cup.
