Former Flying Eagles coach Paul Aigbogun picked the controversial 25-man squad of NPFL players who will take on Mexico in a friendly next month, just as officials informed SCORENigeria that the team will be led by NFF technical director and former Super Eagles coach Austin Eguavoen.
Eguavoen will be in charge of the team with Aigbogun serving as his assistant, an official disclosed.
Curiously, Super Eagles assistant coach Joseph Yobo has not been mentioned as part of this arrangement.
Yobo status in the national team remains very uncertain after his absence at the Super Eagles recent friendlies against Cameroon in Austria could not be explained.
It was gathered that scouting in the NFF technical department falls under Aigbogun and the former Enyimba and Warri Wolves coach has also undertaken scouting missions for NPFL stars for Gernot Rohr.
Questions have raged over the merit or otherwise of a good number of the call-ups for the July 3 friendly against Mexico in Los Angeles.
Rohr himself appears to have “washed his hands” off the team after he insisted he was “only an adviser” and will not be the one to lead them out against Mexico, who are ranked 11th in the world by FIFA.
