ELEPHANTS JOB:

Ivory Coast FA drops Keshi

 

Coach Keshi

 

THE heat between the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and Coach Stephen Keshi would certainly cool down for now, as the Côte d’Ivoire Football Federation has dropped the 'Big Boss' from its five-man short list to replace Hervé Renard for the vacant Elephants job.

Recall Keshi was summoned by the NFF disciplinary committee how his name appeared in the 59 applicants for the Elephants job.

Naijasportsxtra.blogspot.com gathered from the federation website www.fedivoir.com/fifci, that following the examination of 59 applications, the FIF-appointed committee has selected Portuguese coach Paulo Duarte, Polish manager Henryk Kasperczak and the French trio of Patrice Neveu, Frédéric Antonetti and Michel Dussuyer.

This five-man shortlist will further be reduced to three ahead of the final appointment.

It would be recalled that Frenchman, Hervé Renard led Côte d’Ivoire to their first AFCON title in 23 years in Equatorial Guinea.