Exclusive: Sports Minister orders NFF to appoint Janne Andersson as new Super Eagles coach

Sports Minister Senator John Enoh has ordered the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to end the drama of appointing a new coach for the Nigeria senior national team by making Janne Andersson the new coach, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

The Super Eagles will go into the AFCON qualifiers under interim coach Austine Eguavoen after the NFF failed to appoint a replacement for Finidi George who left his post two months ago.

Janne Andersson was chosen by NFF president Ibrahim Musa Gusau but met with strong opposition from board members and the technical committee because the coach was not among those shortlisted for the post.

That impasse caused negotiations with the NFF to break down, but in a meeting that lasted around seven minutes according to sources, the minister ordered Gusau to go ahead and appoint Andersson as coach.

An announcement is said to be imminent, although the choice is unpopular among the senior board hierarchy and has strained relations between the NFF president and members of the technical committee.

They said it was the second time that the president had deviated from his recommendation when appointing a coach, after doing the same in the appointment of Finidi, who lasted only a month in office.