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Invitation
By Aderonke Ojediran-Lawal
Lagos, Oct. 27, 2016 (NAN) Ex-international, Waidi Akanni, has urged new Super Eagles Head Coach, Salisu Yusuf to invite more domestic league players to the national team.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Yusuf was on Monday confirmed new head coach of the senior national team by the NFF Board after several months of speculation about his selection for the job.
He told NAN in Lagos on Thursday that the new coach is very experienced and “knows the Nigerian players’’.
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“The man is very experienced and he knows the Nigerian players.
“Hopefully he can bring more players into the national team.
“That’s the reason why, when you employ a local coach that knows all the local players very well, you would expect that he should be able to bring in one, two or three local players to play in the first team of the national teams.
“Salisu has been around both in the local league and of course the Super league as well.
“So I’d expect that he will continue from where he left off the last time they played against Zambia.’’
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Yusuf, a former midfielder with ABU FC started his coaching career with Nasarawa United in 2002.
He later moved to Lobi Stars as an Assistant Coach, where he won the Challenge Cup, now known as the FA Cup.
In1999, he was employed as Assistant Coach to then Super Eagles Coach, Samson Siasia and later served as an Assistant Coach to the late Coach Stephen Keshi in the same team.
Following the death of Keshi, Yusuf was appointed interim coach of the team, a position he held until his recent confirmation as head coach. (NAN)
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Edited by Edited by Tony Nezianya/Emmanuel Yashim
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