Libya have appointed Nasser Al-Hadiri as their new national team head coach, reports Completesports.com.
The Libya Football Federation (LFF). recently sacked Serbian Milutin Sredojevic following the Mediterranean Knights poor start to the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series.
The North Africans are bottom of Group D after recording just one point from two games.
Al-Hadri will be assisted by Abu Bakr Al-Harak, while Misbah Shangab will be the goalkeeper coach.
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The new gaffer previously held the position of assistant coach to Spaniard Javier Clemente in the Libyan national team in 2014.
President of the LFF, Abdul Hakim Al-Shalmani said the body has reached agreement with Al-Hadiri to take charge of the team.
Libya will take on the Super Eagles of Nigeria in a 2025 AFCON qualifying matchday three encounter in Uyo on Friday, October 11.
The Mediterranean Knights will host the three-time African champions in Benina four days later.
By Adeboye Amosu
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NFF over to you.
Who be this? Libya just conspired to make Eguavoen look good to tinker with the national team after a long time away from coaching except stop-gap opportunities with, guess what, our national team! May this NFF never happen to Nigeria again.
We are gonna obviously rely on our talents to bulldoze their way through Libya. Rubbish.
Is it not better to have a settled coach who’d forced NFF to plan grade A friendlies by commanding respect from top nations in the coming year to fine-tune his tactics?
NFF is not foresighted. Finally.
NFF SHOULD EMPLOY A HIGHLY TECHNICAL FOREIGN COACH THAT KNOW ABOUT AFRICAN FOOTBALL & SUPER EAGLE PLAYERS.
THE REASON WHY SOME EX-PLAYERS AND SOME PRESENT SUPER EAGLE PLAYERS ARE IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS COACH IS BECAUSE THAT, IT WILL BE VERY EASY FOR THEM TO PENETRATE IN HIM, CONTROLLING HIM & DICTATING TO HIM WHEN IT COMES TO PLAYERS SELECTION, WHICH IT CANNOT BE POSSIBLE ON FOREIGN COACH. ALSO, IT WILL BE VERY EASY TO DO BUSINESS BY INTRODUCING PLAYERS TO INDIGENOUS COACH AFTER COLLECTING BRIBE FROM SUCH PLAYERS.
** NOTE: We should not be deceiving ourselves in this country because of the way things work for other countries (e.g. Democracy work well in America, S/Africa, Ghana but it doesn’t work well in Nigeria).
THE WAY THINGS WORK FOR COACH H. SHEHATA(EGYPT), COACH ALIOU CISSE(SENEGAL) BY WINNING AFCON FOR THEIR COUNTY (and also qualified for next AFCON easily) MAY NOT WORK IN NIGERIA DUE TO CORRUPTION, IMPROPER PLANNING, LACK OF STRUCTURES, BAD MANAGEMENT.
IN NIGERIA, WE ARE TOO RELIGIONISTIC, REGIONISTIC, TRIBALISTIC & SENTIMENTAL.
EVEN when Keshi won AFCON in 2013, he failed woefully to qualified for next AFCON due to bad management(Pinnick VS Giwa), sentiment, jealous, hatred towards some players (e.g.Keshi versus Yobo, I.K. uche, V.moses).
**** NFF SHOULD GO FOR THE BEST FOREIGN COACH.***
What matters most is to move our football forward & not celebrating FLUKE WINNING again. We struggle/manage to beat CIV by penalty in group stage. But E/guinea beat CIV 4-0 convincingly.
*** KESHI WON AFCON IN 2013, BUT WE CANNOT BOAST OF PLAYERS, THE TEAM FOR THE FUTURE (for instance: Sunday MBA, Uzoenyi, Oshaniwa, Agbim are nowhere to be found in future football). AND NIGERIA FAILED TO QUALIFIED FOR NEXT TWO CONSECUTIVE AFCON.
WHAT A SHAME!!!!
**** WESTERHOF WIN AFCON IN 1994, BUT NIGERIA CAN BOAST OF FUTURE FOOTBALL (for instance: Oliseh, Okocha, Amokachi, Amuneke shine for future football).
WHAT A BRIGHTER FUTURE!!!!!
### NFF SHOULD EMPLOY A GOOD DISCIPLINE, TACTICAL, HIGHLY RESPECTED COACH ###
GIVE US HERVE RENARD & SIASIA combination
@Talk ur own, you have said it all.
This part of your comment really struck me…
“…THE REASON WHY SOME EX-PLAYERS AND SOME PRESENT SUPER EAGLE PLAYERS ARE IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS COACH IS BECAUSE THAT, IT WILL BE VERY EASY FOR THEM TO PENETRATE IN HIM, CONTROLLING HIM & DICTATING TO HIM WHEN IT COMES TO PLAYERS SELECTION, …”
Finishi had hardly come on board and we started hearing cries for the inclusion of at least 4 homebased players in the SE…..of course we all know where those cries were coming from.
He hardly spent 4 months on the saddle and within those 4 months they managed to sell one of their players from Singida FC in Tanzanian league to the 3rd division in England.
The same people who goaded him into turning the SE to a bazaar market are on the saddle now in interim basis and they have not dared invite any home-home based or tanzanian-home based player to the SE cos they want results in order to keep their positions on a permanent basis.
Even Mr Odegbami in his praise of Eguavoen to getting 4 points out of 6 (vs BENIN and RWANDA) suddenly remembered and referred to the all foreign-based team assembled by Eguavoen for both matches as “OUR BEST LEGS AVAILABLE”….LMAOOooo. Same man who had claimed foreign based and foreign born players were the cause of our failure when the same Egauvoen and his 9 dullards got booted out of both the AFCON and the WC in the space of 3 months….LMAOoo.
Like you rightly said above…..the earlier we stopped deceiving oursleves, the better for our football.
May God deliver Nigerians