Finidi George
6 May 2024
Nigerian champions, Enyimba, are bracing up for life without their head coach, Finidi George, who was recently employed by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as Super Eagles coach.
5 May 2024
Stakeholders in Nigerian football have called on coaches and other officials in the system to rally round new Super Eagles’ Coach, Finidi George, as he tries to qualify the country for the 2026 World Cup.
4 May 2024
To succeed in sports, and to become a champion, as in life generally, is hardly ever a tea party.
4 May 2024
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has congratulated Bayelsa-born newly appointed Head Coach of the Nigerian national football team, Finidi George.
3 May 2024
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), yesterday, revealed that it is still working on the details of Coach Finidi George’s contract, even as it has given the Enyimba manager the mandate to start preparing for Super Eagles’ 2026 World Cup qualifiers against South Africa and the Benin Republic in June.
1 May 2024
Former international, Adegoke Adelabu,has condemned a recent pronouncement by a member of the NFF Technical Committee, Victor Ikpeba, that the NFF settled for Finidi George as Super Eagles’ coach because they don’t have money to pay a foreign manager for the team.
30 Apr 2024
After a long wait for a substantive coach for the senior national team, Super Eagles, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), yesterday, named former Ajax Amsterdam midfielder, Finidi George, as the team’s new head coach.
29 Apr 2024
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Monday announced the appointment of Finidi George as the new Super Eagles head coach. The NFF said George's appointment followed the recommendation of its Technical and Development Committee to appoint the new head coach. George, who spent 20 months as assistant to José Santos Peseiro before the Portuguese voluntarily…
28 Mar 2024
Despite Super Eagles’ 0-2 loss to the Eagles of Mali on Tuesday night, Coach Finidi George said that the Nigerians were the better team.
25 Mar 2024
Super Eagles Coach, Finidi George, is expecting Mali to give his team a tougher fight than the Blacks Stars of Ghana did in their last friendly game in Morocco.
22 Mar 2024
Nigeria's Super Eagles beat bitter rivals Black Stars of Ghana 2-1 in an international friendly game in Marrakech, Morocco on Friday. Cyriel Dessers and substitute Ademola Lookman got the Super Eagles goals to help George Finidi record his first win as Super Eagles interim coach. The Black Stars goal was scored by Jordan Ayew from…
22 Mar 2024
For the first in almost two years, Nigeria’s senior national team, the Super Eagles, will go into a game without Portuguese gaffer, Jose Peseiro, when they confront old rivals, Ghana, in a friendly game in Morocco.
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