{"id":2207,"date":"2014-10-01T06:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2014-10-01T06:23:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:23:40","slug":"nff-wants-me-to-replace-keshi-german-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"NFF wants me to replace Keshi \u2013German coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_2208\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2208\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2208\" alt=\"German Christoph Daum\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum-80x80.jpg 80w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum-40x40.jpg 40w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum-64x64.jpg 64w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">German Christoph Daum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>German Christoph Daum claims he has been approached by the Nigeria Football Federation to replace Stephen Keshi as the Super Eagles coach, <em>supersport.com<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The former Bayer Leverkusen manager was reported to have told German website mobo.de that he rejected the offer last week.<\/p>\n<p>The NFF has yet\u00a0\u00a0 to renew Keshi\u2019s contract when it expired after the Brazil 2014 World Cup in June and he is currently on a \u2018game per game\u2019 contract.<\/p>\n<p>Daum, 60, who has previously managed German sides FC Cologne, VfL Stuttgart and Eintracht Frankfurt, as well as Turkish outfit, Bursaspor, and is currently out of work.<\/p>\n<p>Keshi guided the Eagles in their two 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Congo and South Africa. Nigeria lost 3-2 to Congo in Calabar on September 6 and battled to a goalless draw against South Africa in Cape Town four days later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had offers last week to become coach of Nigeria,\u201d <em>mobo.de<\/em> quoted Daum as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The former Fenerbahce coach said he is not open to any coaching job until next season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy next year, I\u2019ll take over a team,\u201d Daum said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Stoke City winger Victor Moses has said he was surprised he was not awarded a penalty after he was brought down inside the box on his way to goal in a 1-0 win over Newcastle United in their Premier League match on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria international Moses, who is on a season-long loan from Chelsea, has impressed in his four Premier League appearances for Stoke City this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted with these three points,\u201d Moses told <em>Sky Sports.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Christoph Daum claims he has been approached by the Nigeria Football Federation to replace Stephen Keshi as the Super Eagles coach, supersport.com reports. The former Bayer Leverkusen manager was reported to have told German website mobo.de that he rejected the offer last week. The NFF has yet\u00a0\u00a0 to renew Keshi\u2019s contract when it expired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/German-Christoph-Daum.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-zB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}