The Nigerian Football Federation has signed an agreement with Sweden's best football coach, Thomas Dennerby, to take on the role of head coach of eight African champions, Super Falcons.
The contract also allows Dennerby to enter the job with an assistant, Mr Jorgen Petersson, another very experienced Swedish coach named by Dennerby himself.
Dennerby, who spent nine years with Allsvesnkan's Hammarby IF and took part in the European Cup in 1983 and 1985, won 34 selections for the Swedish junior teams between 1975 and 1981.
He coached the Swedish senior women's team between 2005 and 2012, during which the team played at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games and the finals of the 2007 and 2011 FIFA World Cups, winning the bronze medal at the latter tournament.
He has also served as a youth coach for Stockholm FA and worked in various capacities for the former Hammarby club between 1993 and 2001.
More recently, he did scouting and analysis for the Swedish federation at the 2013 and 2017 European Championships, the 2016 Olympic Games and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. Petersson has worked with several major Swedish clubs including Moheda IF, Osters IF, Vaxjo, Alvesta Golf, IFK Varmamo, Malmö FF, Kalmar FF and Linkopings FC, as assistant coach of the Swedish women's under-23 team between 2006 and 2012 and was recruited women's national team at the European Championship last year.
The meeting is in line with NFF President Amaju Pinnick's commitment to recruit a world-class coach to bring the Super Falcons and other national women's teams to the next level (from competition and laurels to world championships). Work so hard with the Federation to ensure the robust development of women's football in Nigeria. Pinnick expressed his joy that the process went smoothly and ensured the coaches of a work environment conducive to reaching the milestones set.
“The NFF decided to go for a coach of the calibre of Thomas Dennerby for three reasons: to sustain and enhance the Super Falcons’ dominance on the African scene; to take the Falcons and the other women teams to the next level of challenging for laurels at global competitions like the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup and; to generally lay the foundation for the real development of women’s football in our country,” Shehu Dikko, NFF 2nd Vice President/Chairman of Strategy, told thenff.com.
Dikko added: “Dennerby will live in Nigeria most of the time and support the other women teams whenever he has the time. The contract is until the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in the initial, with the right for automatic renewal subject to meeting performance milestones as agreed. He will be in Nigeria very soon for the public unveiling.
“The NFF Technical and Development Committee has already shortlisted three Nigerians to work with Messrs Dennerby and Petersson as assistant coaches and goalkeeper trainer. These three will resume work soon to start preparing the team for the upcoming WAFU Cup of Nations in Cote d’Ivoire pending the resumption of Dennerby and Petersson.”
The three coaches who will work with Dennerby and Petersson will be announced soon.
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