{"id":11617,"date":"2010-10-29T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T23:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/29\/nigerian-head-to-start-from-december\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T23:48:41","slug":"nigerian-head-to-start-from-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2010\/10\/29\/nigerian-head-to-start-from-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian head to start from December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/previous.presstv.ir\/photo\/20101028\/gholami20101028102425577.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"387\" \/>PTV &#8211; ABUJA, <strong>The Nigeria Football  Federation (NFF) has announced that Stephen Keshi or Samson Siasia will  guide the country&#8217;s national soccer team from December.<\/strong><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\"> <strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Both former internationals have been short listed for interview by  the federation&#8217;s technical committee on November 4, NFF official Deji  Tinubu said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The new Nigerian manager will resume work on December 1, 2010. <\/p>\n<p>Caretaker coach Austin Eguavoen will lead the team to a November 17  friendly in Iran and thereafter be named handler of the country&#8217;s  Olympic team. <\/p>\n<p>Eguavoen picked three uncapped players, namely Siena defender  Michael Odibe, Lecce striker Edward Ofere and Valerenga midfielder  Fengor Ogude for the friendly against Iran at Tehran&#8217;s Azadi Stadium. <\/p>\n<p>Keshi qualified Togo for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. He assisted  Shuaibu Amodu to qualify Nigeria to the 2002 World Cup. His last job was  as coach of Mali at this year&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. <\/p>\n<p>Siasia, who has enjoyed success with the country&#8217;s Under-20 and  Olympic teams, was already in talks with the NFF over succeeding former  Sweden coach Lars Lagerback as coach of the Super Eagles before the NFF  decided to advertise for the position. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTV &#8211; ABUJA, The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that Stephen Keshi or Samson&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c13-team-melli-news"],"views":3026,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}