FULL LIST: Four former/current Super Eagles’ coaches from Bayelsa
The Nigeria Football Federation on Monday, April 29, announced the appointment of former Super Eagles winger, Finidi George as the new head coach of the nation’s senior men’s national team.
The announcement came in a statement, with the NFF Board approving the recommendation of its Technical and Development Committee to hand over the reins to the 52-year-old former Ajax Amsterdam and Real Betis forward.
The Nation examines four Super Eagles coaches from Bayelsa state, three former and one current.
Finidi George is the fourth Super Eagles head coach who hails from Bayelsa State.
The four are all from Sagbama Local Government Area of the state.
Here is a list of four Bayelsa-born Super Eagles’ coach/ex-coaches
Paul Hamilton:
Paul Ebiye Hamilton was a Nigerian footballer and manager.
He died at the Military Hospital in Lagos, on March 30, 2017.
After retirement as a player, he was hired as coach of the U-20 national team.
He was then hired as head coach of the Nigeria national football team in 1989 but was fired after Nigeria failed to qualify for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
He went on to coach the female national team for their first World Cup.
He received his UEFA coaching license in the summer 2006.
Monday Sinclair
Monday Sinclair was a legendary football tactician who is credited to have discovered players like Richard Owubokiri, Benjy Nziakor, Peter Rufai, Finidi George, Taribo West, Emmanuel “waist breaker” Ebiede Inikio, Davidson Owumi, Idah Peterside, Binebi Numa, Imama Amapakabo and many others.
The soft-spoken coach, Monday Sinclair, started his coaching career with Sharks FC (now Rivers United) before moving on to manage Niger Tornadoes, Enugu Rangers, Heartland, Bayelsa United and much later Nzalang Nacional in Equatorial Guinea
In 1997 he was briefly appointed as the head Coach of the Super Eagles.
Samson Siasia
Samson Siasia was a Nigerian former professional football striker and the former head coach of the Nigeria national team from 2010 to October 2011.
He was reappointed in 2016.
On 16 August 2019, FIFA banned Siasia from all football activities for life (later reduced to five years, following a match-fixing investigation.
Finidi George
George Finidi is a former Nigerian player who is currently the head coach of the Nigeria national football team.
As a player, he played as a right winger.
After making a name for himself at Ajax in the Netherlands, being a leading figure in a team which won eight major titles, including the 1995 Champions League, he played several years in Spain with Real Betis.
He also played briefly in England before retiring.
Finidi was a member of the Nigeria team during the 1990s, appearing in two World Cups.
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