SCORENigeria understands that former Super Eagles World Cup skipper Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha is one of the main promoters of the newly appointed Super Eagles coach Bruno Labbadia.
Okocha featured for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga, where Labbadia played as a striker and also headed several clubs including VfB Stuttgart.
Labbadia, 58, was a late consideration for the Super Eagles top post, but he enjoyed favourable “political support” from Sport Minister John Enoh.
This was the main factor that gave him the edge ahead of former Sweden coach Janne Andersson and Herve Renard, several senior officials informed SCORENigeria
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