Austin Akosa, head of the three-man team that toured Europe in search of a coach, dismissed claims that Ruud Gullit, former player- manager of English premier league club Chelsea, was among those earmarked as a possible replacement.
"Dutchmen Henk Ten Cate, Wim Jansen, Thijs Libregts, Aad de Mos and Wim Rijsbergen are the only five coaches on the list we have sent off to the NFA," state-run News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) quoted Akosa as saying.
Gullit has been out of a coaching job since last February when he was sacked by Chelsea.
The Nigerian coaching job has been vacant since the World Cup when the contract of former coach Bora Milutinovic, appointed in December to guide the Olympic champions through the World Cup, ended in a second round defeat to Denmark.
The new foreign coach has the immediate task of qualifying the West Africans for the 2000 African Nations' Cup in Zimbabwe. Nigeria play Burkina Faso in October in one of the qualifying matches for the tournament.
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