{"id":21829,"date":"2025-01-07T21:38:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21829"},"modified":"2025-01-07T21:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:44:23","slug":"ex-mali-head-coach-eric-chelle-appointed-super-eagles-head-coach-by-nff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=21829","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Mali Head Coach Eric Chelle Appointed Super Eagles Boss by NFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has named Eric Chelle as the new head coach of the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The appointment was confirmed by the NFF in a statement released on Tuesday, January 7, following the recommendation of its Technical and Development Sub-Committee during a meeting held in Abuja on Thursday, January 2, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chelle, 47, is a former head coach of Mali\u2019s senior national team and has previously managed clubs such as GS Consolat, FC Martigues, Boulogne, and MC Oran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During his playing career in France, he represented clubs including Martigues, Valenciennes, Lens, Istres, and Chamois Niortais.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Born in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire to a French father and a Malian mother, Chelle was eligible to play for C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, France, and Mali. He chose Mali, earning five international caps before retiring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As Mali\u2019s head coach from 2022 to 2024, he guided the team to the quarter-finals of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Under his leadership, the Aiglons achieved an impressive record of 14 wins, five draws, and three losses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has named Eric Chelle as the new head coach of the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9991,9990,9989,7680,1128,707],"class_list":["post-21829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-appointed","tag-eric-chelle","tag-ex-mali-head-coach","tag-head-coach","tag-nff","tag-super-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21832,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21829\/revisions\/21832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}