BREAKING: Meet 61-year-old new Super Eagles coach Janne Andersson

BREAKING: Meet 61-year-old new Super Eagles coach Janne Andersson

According to SCORENigeria, former coach of Sweden Jan Olof ‘Janne’ Andersson will be the long-awaited new coach of the Super Eagles.

He is 61 years old and was coach of Sweden between 2016 and 2023.

He qualified Sweden to the 2018 World Cup as well as the 2020 Euros, but failed to qualify them for the 2022 World Cup as well as the 2024 Euros.

He has no working experience in Africa.

His choice confirms another SCORENigeria Exclusive that the NFF have made a fresh choice for the Super Eagles top post outside the four previously shortlisted coaches – Herve Renard, Eric Chelle, Tom Saintfiet and Steve McClaren.

The last Swede to coach the Super Eagles was Lars Lagerback, who took charge of the country’s team to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where we failed to go past the first round of the tournament.

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Another Swede coach, Thomas Denerby, was also in charge of the Super Falcons to the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France

1. In July 2016, Andersson was named the 47th best manager in the world by football magazine FourFourTwo. In November 2018, Andersson was named by FourFourTwo as the 17th best manager in the world. At the 2019 Swedish Sports Awards Andersson was named Coach of the Year.

2. He lead Sweden to their best ever performance at the world cup in six attempts in 2018 when they got to the quarter final before losing to England.

3. As coach of Sweden the team did the unbelievable by finishing top of their world cup 2018 group that included defending champions Germany, South Korea and Mexico.

4. Andersson powered Sweden to the Nations League League A and led the team to high profile wins over Netherlands and Italy respectively to send them packing from major tournaments.

5. His record for Sweden reads 48 wins from 94 games earning him a 51 percent success rate in his time at the helm.

BREAKING: Meet 61-year-old new Super Eagles coach Janne Andersson