“If I talk to them and they don’t listen or don’t see value in what I’m saying, then I can go public”

New Super Eagles coach, Eric Chelle has given an insight into how he plans to pilot the affairs of the country’s senior men’s national football team under his reign.

Chelle, who is a former coach of the Mali national team, is to lead the Super Eagles through the rest of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers and, possibly, the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

Football fans in Aba have expressed disappointment over the appointment of former Mali coach Éric Chelle as the new Head Coach of the Super Eagles. Some of the fans who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Aba on Wednesday said that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) should have retained the coaching crew […]

As the Super Eagles look to turn its fortunes around, here are seven key things you should know about the man tasked with steering Nigeria’s football giants back to glory.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has named Eric Chelle as the new head coach of the Super Eagles.

“There should be regulations in the team if we need to pick the pieces and qualify for the World Cup”

To emerge top of the group, the Super Eagles, who are presently without a substantive coach, would need to win the remaining six matches left in the series to amass 18 points in addition to the three they already have to finish with 23 points.

As the next round of qualification matches for the 2026 Federation of International Football Associations, FIFA World Cup begins in March, 2025, Nigerians are in a quandary over the ability of the Super Eagles to pick the sole ticket of Group C as they lie precariously on the fifth spot, surprisingly behind Rwanda, South Africa, Benin Republic and Lesotho in that order.

As the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF contemplates on the hiring of a foreign coach for the Super Eagles , former coach of the senior national team, Samson Siasia has said the country can do without a foreigner.