Le Guen, Le Roy, Westerhof, Bonfere eye Eagles job

The race to replace former Super Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh, is becoming fiercer every day with ex-manager of Cameroon national team, Paul Le Guen, former Senegal coach, Claude Le Roy topping the lists of coaches that have submitted their application to the Nigeria Football Federation.

Caretaker coach Samson Siasia, who is the current coach of the national U-23, was redeployed to the Eagles after erstwhile coach, Sunday Oliseh, resigned last month. His mandate covers the two games against Egypt.

Ex-Eagles coaches, Clemence Westerhof and Bonfrere Jo have also shockingly joined the race. Their applications are also at
the Glass House, a source said.

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LeRoy has managed five different African national teams since first taking charge of Cameroon in 1985. He has coached at eight Cups of Nations and won the tournament with the Indomitable Lions in 1988. He also took Senegal to the quarterfinal of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Le Guen, who won three league titles with Lyon of France, qualified Cameroon for the 2010 World Cup but was recently sacked by Oman after a poor start to the 2018 World Cup qualification campaign.

Meanwhile, top NFF officials have backed coach Samson Siasia to get the the job on a permanent basis if he leads Nigeria to a favourable result against Egypt in their 2017 Africa Nations Cup games on March 25 and 29, but this has not stopped the federation from shopping for an expatriate.

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