Former Super Eagles’ goalkeeper and recent past head coach at FK Tirana of Albania, Emmanuel Ndubuisi Egbo has disclosed that he has a strong desire to one day handle the Nigerian national team, megasportsarena.com reports.
Despite failing to hold a long term hold of Tirana’s top job, as his fortunes dwindled after leading them to Albanian top-flight league success last summer, the 47-year-old Egbo admitted he is highly ambitious in the trade and expressed his desire to coach the Eagles in future.
Not only is Egbo thinking of taking charge of the Eagles at a point in the future, the former Vasco da Gama of Enugu and NITEL United of Lagos shot-stopper has set a huge target he wants to achieve with the Nigerian team, as he revealed that his dream is to win the World Cup with the three-time African champions.
The keeper-turned-gaffer, who guided Tirana to win the Albanian league last season and took them to the UEFA Champions League, thereby becoming the first African coach to achieve such a feat in all of Europe, is currently without a job and expressed his readiness to accept any promising offer that comes his way, especially from Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Egbo told a leading Nigerian newspaper, The Punch: “It is like a military service that you do for your country. When you are called upon you don’t have any choice, unless I’m in a contract with another team and it is difficult to go away from there.
“I’m always open to help my country because I’m a dreamer and I always want to achieve something to fulfill those dreams that I had. I always remember what Pele said that he dreamt that one day an African country would win the World Cup. I’m seeing Nigeria winning the World Cup.
“That is one of the dreams I want to achieve for my continent. Anytime I’m called upon, I still have it in my head that if I am given the opportunity I will do my maximum best not only to make Nigerian football but African football move ahead.
“Just like how Pitso Mosimane of South Africa is doing, he won with Sundowns and then went to Egypt and won the CAF Champions League with Al Ahly. Those are the things that we need to be doing to move African football up. Al Ahly is the club of the century in the whole world and that is something coming from Africa.
“I’ve won one trophy on a continent, why not win the World Cup or at least get to the final first of all. If we want European clubs to take a look at our players, we need to bring them up to their level and achieve what they are achieving, then we can measure our strengths with theirs.”
