{"id":24346,"date":"2020-04-25T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=24346"},"modified":"2020-04-25T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T18:54:48","slug":"nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate","title":{"rendered":"NIGERIA&#8217;S YOBO CLOSE TO SECURING COACHING CERTIFICATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>New Nigeria assistant coach Joseph Yobo has revealed that he is in the process of getting his first coaching certificate.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) was criticized last February after announcing Yobo as the new assistant coach despite his lack of coaching experience.<\/p>\n<p>The former Everton FC and Fenerbahce defender is now preparing for life as Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr\u2019s assistant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s in progress, everything is going to come through, if not for this pandemic as well. But like I said this is a topic that we can talk about for days,\u201d Yobo said on All Nigeria Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing I like is I\u2019m a practical kind of person, I have said that even talking about the local players, put me against somebody and watch what happens, not that I am proud of what I think I can do but I always let my work speak for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yobo is Nigeria\u2019s joint-most-capped player with 101 caps and he helped the Super Eagles win the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) title in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bring in my experience, I am going to bring in belief, I am going to be an interface between the players,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing people don\u2019t understand my time as the captain, a lot of things that happened behind the scenes players don\u2019t want to talk about because they\u2019ll be a scapegoat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have somebody else, Gernot Rohr, he\u2019s the tactician, he\u2019s the head coach. I am assisting him in things that maybe he might not see, I\u2019m working under him, I\u2019m not the head coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yobo, who is a former Nigeria captain, was appointed assistant coach to replace Imama Amapakabo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: New Nigeria assistant coach Joseph Yobo has revealed that he is in the process of getting his first coaching certificate. The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) was criticized last February after announcing Yobo as the new assistant coach despite his lack of coaching experience. The former Everton FC and Fenerbahce defender is now preparing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":24348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-24346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NIGERIA&#039;S YOBO CLOSE TO SECURING COACHING CERTIFICATE - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:New Nigeria assistant coach Joseph Yobo has revealed that he is in the process of getting his first coaching certificate.The\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NIGERIA&#039;S YOBO CLOSE TO SECURING COACHING CERTIFICATE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:New Nigeria assistant coach Joseph Yobo has revealed that he is in the process of getting his first coaching certificate.The\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-25T18:54:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/B14F4GB0091w_1_580x473.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"580\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"473\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"NIGERIA&#8217;S YOBO CLOSE TO SECURING COACHING CERTIFICATE\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-25T18:54:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate\"},\"wordCount\":298,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/04\/B14F4GB0091w_1_580x473.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerias-yobo-close-to-securing-coaching-certificate\",\"name\":\"NIGERIA'S YOBO CLOSE TO SECURING COACHING CERTIFICATE - 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