The Sweedish football coach, Thomas Dennerby, is to join the Super Falcons as Head Coach.
This followed an agreement signed between Dennerby and the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF.
The development was made known in a statement issued by NFF’s Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire.
Olajire also said in the statement that the agreement allowed Dennerby to bring in an assistant, Jorgen Petersson.
Petersson was nominated by Dennerby himself.
“Dennerby, who spent nine years with Hammarby IF of Allsvesnkan and played in the European Cup in 1983 and 1985, won 34 caps for Swedish junior teams between 1975 and 1981,’’ Olajire said.
He said further that Dennerby coached the Swedish Women’s Senior Team between 2005 and 2012, during which the team played at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
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He added: “His team also played at the 2007 and 2011 FIFA World Cup finals, winning bronze at the latter tournament.
“He also served time as youth coach for Stockholm FA and worked in various capacities for former club Hammarby between 1993 and 2001.
“More recently, he did scouting and analyses for the Swedish FA at the 2013 and 2017 European Championships, the 2016 Olympics and the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada.
“Petersson has worked with several top Swedish clubs, including Moheda IF, Osters IF, Vaxjo, Alvesta Golf, IFK Varmamo, Malmo FF, Kalmar FF and Linkopings FC.
“He was assistant coach of the Swedish U23 women team between 2006-2012 and scouted for the Swedish women national team at last year’s European Championship.’’
The appointment is in fulfillment of the promise by the NFF to help improve the female team by getting for it, a world class coach.
