Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, Sir Alex Ferguson as well as Arsene Wenger are the coaches Nigeria handler Stephen Keshi looks up to.
Former Mali and Togo handler Keshi has named the three top coaches as his coaching role models and said, “I will borrow the good aspects from these three world-class coaches and I’m sure I will eventually become like them.”
The Nigeria coach said as a player former Eagles skipper Christian Chukwu was his role model.
“Chukwu will play for 90 minutes without making a wrong pass or committing a foul. I tried to be like him and I eventually became like him on the pitch of play,” Keshi said.
Meanwhile, the Eagles training camp for the domestic league players will no longer break on Thursday.
The NPL stars will now leave camp January 17 to regroup in February for a 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda in Kigali.
Officials of the team said the need for proper bonding of the team and for the team to have a character of oneness informed the decision not to go on break for four days.
The coaches also feel that all the work that has been done on the players will be lost by the time the players return.
The team are now to remain in camp till January 15, when they should play an international friendly as a January 7 date for a friendly is now shaky.
Already Liberia are being touted as the local Eagles likely opponents.