Super Eagles interim Coach Augustine Eguavoen has given conditions that would make him consider taking on the top coaching post on a permanent basis.
As he manages the team for the fourth time, he stressed the need for a long-term contract with patience and realistic clauses, acknowledging that consistent winning is not guaranteed in football.
Eguavoen told Brila.FM that, “The Super Eagles job I am doing right now, if I were to switch permanently, I is something I did need to sit down, reflect, and think deeply about because it’s not a small job.
“You will give me time to tweak the team till I find what I want.”
Despite the team’s current challenges in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, Augustine Eguavoen expressed optimism about their chances.
”It will be a tough one. You have to give me long-term contract with patience and clauses in that contract because winning is not guaranteed every week or day.
“You will give me time to tweak the team till I find what I want.”
Eguavoen, who has also headed the U23s and Golden Eaglets, stressed that he may be on his fourth stint as Super Eagles coach, but in the previous three times he was not on the job for more than six months.
“In 2006, I was there for six months, every other time it was two months, two games or three games.
“Clemens Westerhof was in charge between 1989 and 1994, (Gernot) Rohr was there for six years. They got some time.
“I never got straight two years.”
He therefore said he would need a long-term contract with “many clauses”, patience and support to be a substantive coach of the Super Eagles.
Eguavoen has now been mandated to qualify the country to the 2025 AFCON and he will also oversee the qualification of the home-based Eagles to next year’s CHAN in East Africa.