{"id":11836,"date":"2025-01-07T21:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=11836"},"modified":"2025-01-07T21:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:21:12","slug":"nff-appoints-malis-eric-chelle-as-super-eagles-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/nff-appoints-malis-eric-chelle-as-super-eagles-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"NFF appoints Mali\u2019s Eric Chelle as Super Eagles head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Eric Chelle as the head coach of the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The NFF announced the appointment of the Malian tactician in a statement on Tuesday, January 7.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The decision followed the recommendation of the NFF\u2019s Technical and Development Sub-Committee during its meeting held in Abuja on Thursday, January 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Chelle, 47, is a former head coach of Mali\u2019s senior national team, who also managed clubs such as GS Consolat, FC Martigues, Boulogne, and MC Oran.<\/p>\n<p>During his playing career in France, he represented Martigues, Valenciennes, Lens, Istres, and Chamois Niortais.<\/p>\n<p>Born in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to a French father and a Malian mother, Chelle was eligible to represent C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, France, and Mali. He opted for Mali, earning five caps before retiring.<\/p>\n<p>As Mali\u2019s head coach from 2022 to 2024, Chelle led the Aiglons to the quarter-finals of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership, Mali recorded 14 wins, five draws, and three losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Eric Chelle as the head coach of the Super Eagles. The NFF announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11838,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11836\/revisions\/11838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}