The new head coach of the Super Eagles, Éric Sékou Chelle, and his agent, Sidibe Abraham Brehima, arrived at the Super Eagles B’s Ikenne-Remo camp yesterday with Coach Augustine Eguavoen, the Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation, in what was his first public appearance since Monday’s unveiling.
After taking a plane from Abuja to Lagos, the three of them went directly to the legendary Ogun State town and the Remo Stars’ Sports Institute.
Daniel Ogunmodede, Fidelis Ilechukwu, and Olatunji Baruwa, who qualified the Eagles B for the African Nations Championship, will essentially continue to be in charge of the team’s preparation and tournament participation, NFF President Ibrahim Musa Gusau had made clear during Monday’s unveiling that Chelle would only be with the Eagles B in a supervisory capacity.
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Hours after the Confederation of Afican Football (CAF) declared that the tournament would now be held in August, the draw for the final event of the 8th African Nations Championship is scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya this evening.
Ahead of the ceremony, which will take place at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre starting at 6 p.m. Nigeria time, Super Eagles Team Administrator Dayo Enebi Achor is in Nairobi. Hassan Wasswa of Uganda, Mrisho Ngasa of Tanzania, and McDonald Mariga, a legend from Kenya, will support CAF’s Director of Competitions, Mr. Samson Adamu, at the draw.
The names of 19 nations—including the co-hosts Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, Nigeria, Morocco, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Algeria, Niger Republic, Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Angola, and Madagascar—will be put into the drawing pot.
