Nigeria hires Lagerback as new Super Eagles coach

At least they NFF kept to their words to hire a new coach by the end of this month. I hope our new football coach will start working immediately, because World Cup is almost here. Nigeria hired Swede Lars Lagerback today and signed him on an initial 5-month deal. He would lead the Super Eagles to the World Cup in South Africa later this year. 

Lagerback, who coached his native Sweden for nine years, was picked ahead of fellow Swede Sven Goran Eriksson, Englishman Glen Hoddle, Serb Ratomir Djukovic and Frenchman Bruno Metsu. The Swede was the last of the five candidates to arrive Abuja and was interviewed on Friday afternoon.

The executive committee of the Nigeria Football Association subsequently went into an eight-hour meeting before announcing Lagerback as the new coach.