The Nigeria Football Federation Technical committee has not decided who takes charge of the Super Eagles, says Adegboye Onigbinde and Christian Chukwu.
Both Onigbinde and Chukwu are members of the committee, which was inaugurated on Tuesday in Abuja.
The committee is scheduled to interview Stephen Keshi and Samson Siasia for the vacant Eagles coaching job in Abuja on Thursday.
In a telephone interview with our correspondent on Wednesday, Onigbinde and Chukwu assured that the committee would be fair in its selection.
Onigbinde said, ”We‘re yet to see the files of the two coaches so it is wrong for anyone to assume we‘ve made our choice. We‘ll not choose a coach on sentiment; we‘re going to judge them by what they present.”
The former Eagles, who was part of the team that interviewed the foreign coaches before the eventual appointment of former coach Lars Lagerback, said he would expect surprises at the interview on Thursday.
”Lagerback surprised us with his style of presentation and depth of his knowledge of Nigerian players,” he said. ”If anyone of these two will hope to get the job, he‘ll have to tell us what we don‘t know. I‘ll want them to display their knowledge of our football.”
Chukwu on the other hand admitted the difference between the two coaches might not be much but he would make up his mind after their presentations.
”The two coaches are good at the job but I‘m not going to say who‘ll get the job until I hear from them how they‘ll go about managing the team,” the former Eagles coach said.
Both Siasia and Keshi have impressive records. They are both contemporaries having played together in the most successful Eagles team ever.
While Keshi was captain of that highly talented side that won the African Cup of Nations in 1994 and then played in the country‘s first World Cup in the United States, Siasia played an important role upfront and he scored a famous goal against Argentina in the World Cup.
Keshi, 48, led Togo in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup. He also coached the Malian team at the 2010 Nations Cup in Angola.
Siasia, 43, has seen a bit more success on the podium. He coached the Flying Eagles that won silver at the 2005 U-20 World Cup and also won silver with the U-23 team at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.
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