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Nigeria Name Lagerback As New Technical Adviser

The Nigeria Football Federation on Friday named Swede Lars Lagerback as the new Technical Adviser of the national football team, Super Eagles. The 61 –year old who hails from Katrineholm in Sweden will lead the Super Eagles to the FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa this summer.

NFF’s 15 –member Executive Committee picked Lagerback from an impressive pool of five which included former Senegal Coach Bruno Metsu, former Ghana boss Ratomir Dujkovic, ex –England star and Coach Glenn Hoddle, and former England and Mexico Head Coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Lagerback, who spent nine years in charge of his native country’s senior team, and led the team to the World Cup Round of 16 in Germany four years ago, took his turn with the panel of interviewers in Abuja only on Friday morning while the other four persons had taken their turns before the panelists earlier in the week.

Born Lars Edvin Lagerback on 16th July, 1948, the new Super Eagles’ boss started his coaching career in 1977 when he took over at Kilafors IF in Sweden, where he spent five years. He also had stints with Arbra BK and Hudiksvalls ABK before joining the Swedish Football Federation in 1990 as Coach of the U-21 team. In 1996, he moved to the Swedish B Team, and two years later became Assistant Coach of the senior team. In 2000, he took charge of the team, and led them to the Round of 16 at the World Cup in Korea/Japan where they lost to Teranga Lions of Senegal. He then took Sweden to the quarter finals of the 2004 European Championship in Portugal, before also leading the team to the Round of 16 at the World Cup in Germany two years later.

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