Keshi to sign contract this week
The three-time African champions have been without a substantive coach since June 2014 when Keshi’s first contract with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) lapsed.
Keshi oversaw Nigeria’s 2015 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifying campaign without a contract and speculations had been rife over his future with the Nigeria national team.
The NFF has now put such speculations to bed by announcing that Keshi will put pen to paper on a new deal this week.
“By the grace of God, the contract of Stephen Keshi will be signed in a day or two. We have completed everything from our end and by the grace of God everything will be finalised this week,” Dr Mohammed Sanusi, General Secretary of the NFF, exclusively told supersport.com on Tuesday.
Keshi had failed in his quest to lead Nigeria to the 2015 Afcon finals in Equatorial Guinea and many had expected him to fall on his sword as his predecessor Samson Siasia did.
When quizzed on that, Sanusi said such comparisons would not help Nigerian football.
“Of what significance (failure to qualify for the 2015 Afcon) is that to our football right now. I don’t think we should go into that now...
“We should be thinking of more important issues right now; things that will take our football to the next level and right now we are talking about the contract of Keshi,” he said.
After failing to qualify for the 2015 Afcon, Nigeria will commence their quest to reach the 2017 tournament in Gabon with a game against Chad on the weekend of June 12-14.
The Super Eagles will also face Tanzania and Egypt in Afcon qualifying Group G and Sanusi is upbeat about the chances of Nigeria progressing from the group.
“We want to make Nigerians have faith in the Super Eagles again. We will strive to do well in the Afcon qualifiers and hopefully we will come out of our group,” he said.
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