Eagles coach adds another role to job

As the face-off between the Sports Minister and Galadima rolls to a feverish pitch, indications are that,the Super Eagles chief coach may have added another role to his technical itinery in the team's Faro Camp in Portugal.

This could be the current handwriting on the wall if, Coach Augustine Eguavoen's sneak into the country from the team's pre-Nations Cup Portuguese preparatory grounds, is anything to go by.

According to nigeriasports.com sources in Abuja, the Eagles chief coach's trip home, was "on the instruction of the Sports Ministry. It is being strongly felt here, in Abuja that, since Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima feels that he can decide the nation's fate as far as football is concerned, by refusing to bow to pressures even from Nigerians, to quit the FA, he is free to do so...but he should go for his own team to treat as such," our source offered.

"It is also beleived here that, the coach may have to play the role of both the chief coach of the team and being the purser of the team during the EGYPT 2006 Continental soccer fiesta, where the nation hopes to redeem her image...after being unable to clinch a GERMANY 2006 World Cup Finals ticket."

The Super Eagles Faro Camp nigeriasports.com gathered, has welcomed more invited players both from the local and international world. This is not

unconnected with the technical crew's January 6, 2006 deadline for players, who are "really willing to represent the country at the Nations Cup, to report to camp or forget such dreams after the date."

Meanwhile, back home in Abuja, Nigeria, some FA chairmen, scribes and stakeholders in the game have converged in Abuja for what some observers coined: "congress to ursher in another counter-election to the December 29, 2005 edition held in Kano."