By RICHARD JIDEAKA, Abuja
Friday, April 28, 2006

A former NFA staff, Mrs Lizzy Onyenwenwa was at the secretariat of the NFA, Wednesday, to pick up the technical reports which the ministry had requested for since last month.

The Chief Coach of the Super Eagles, Austin Eguavoen had mid last month submitted to the secretariat of the NFA complete technical details of Nigeria’s participation in the Nations Cup, suggesting the way forward for the Eagles and how he hopes to prepare the team for future engagements

Daily Sunsport gathered that the technical report which the NFA submitted to the Sports Development department of the ministry had the acting Secretary General, Fanny Amun’s imput on the way forward.

Further findings showed that the report exonerated the Eagles coaching crew from the fall in the semi-final of the Nations Cup in Egypt adding that the championship also saw the emergence of young players, who would lead the Eagles in future.

Four years ago, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde was employed to write the reports of Nigeria’s participation at the Nations Cup in Mali. But the report was never used by the NFA. Nothing was said of the Tunisia 2004 campaign under Coach Christian Chukwu.

Nigeria lost in the semi-final of Egypt 2006 to Cote d’Ivoire, but Eagles performance winning five matches out of six has placed the country as No. 1 in Africa according to FIFA ranking.
After he had submitted his reports, Eguavoen has been touring Europe to fraternise with his players and also have useful meeting on how to approach the 2008 Nations Cup qualifiers.