Guardian

• NFF recalls Eagles backroom staff

AS the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) continues to prop up the senior national team, the Super Eagles, for the busy month of June, NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has declared that he has a new pact with the team’s technical crew, headed by Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, for a qualification ticket for Brazil 2014.

This is coming on the heels of the recall of all key staff of the Super Eagles sent away after the South Africa 2013 Nations Cup.

According to Eagles Media Officer, Ben Alaiya, Maigari under whose leadership national team have had a smooth run at major tournaments including the victory at the Nations Cup in South Africa, says he may have had disagreements in the past with members of the national team crew, but the overriding need for national success has put all that in the past.

“Keshi and I have been talking and even when I am not with the team physically they know I am there in spirit and we are set for a touchy month of June where we hope to make Nigerians happy,” Maigari said.

Keshi, who also spoke on the team’s friendly against Mexico, said he now has a new working understanding with the NFF leadership that will make the team not only African champions but potential world champions.

“We have a new understanding to take Nigerian football to the highest height and we can only do that with the national team making it to the Brazil 2014 World Cup and the NFF leadership has been more that supportive of the team,” Keshi said in a telephone conversation with the team’s Media officer.

On their part, Technical Committee Chairman, Christopher Green and Chairman of the Media Committee, Emeka Inyama said they are so far happy with the way things are taking shape with the national team ahead of the friendly against Mexico.