NIGERIA’S national soccer team coach, Jose Peseiro says his players persuaded him to accept a pay cut from the country’s football handling body.
Peseiro agreed a reduction to his salary this summer with the Nigeria Football Federation – NFF, so the Portuguese could remain in charge of the Super Eagles.
“The players pushed me to stay because they believe we can win (the AFCON),” he told Sky Sports.
“We can win it. The players know it. They come with the same energy, the same belief, to fight for the Super Eagles.”
The 63-year-old will lead the West Africans to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire in January.
The Super Eagles are drawn in Group A with hosts Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau.
