{"id":2591,"date":"2023-11-17T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/former-super-eagles-assistant-coach-yusuf-joins-rivers-united-as-advisor\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:08:58","slug":"former-super-eagles-assistant-coach-yusuf-joins-rivers-united-as-advisor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/former-super-eagles-assistant-coach-yusuf-joins-rivers-united-as-advisor\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Super Eagles assistant coach Yusuf joins Rivers United as advisor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Super Eagles assistant coach, Salisu Yusuf has been appointed the advisor to the technical crew of Nigeria Premier Football League side, Rivers United.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf\u2019s appointment was announced on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 61-year-old will work with Rivers United head coach, Stanley Eguma and other members of the technical crew.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran tactician has managed a number of clubs in the NPFL including Nasarawa United, Kano Pillars, Enyimba and Kano Pillars and Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf led Kano Pillars to win the NPFL title in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The former midfielder also won the Nigeria Federation Cup with Enyimba in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Rivers United will hope his expertise can help revive their dwindling fortunes in the NPFL this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Port Harcourt club, who have struggled in the top-flight this season currently sit in 12th position.<\/p>\n<p>Former Super Eagles assistant coach Yusuf joins Rivers United as advisor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by WPeMatico<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles assistant coach, Salisu Yusuf has been appointed the advisor to the technical crew of Nigeria Premier Football&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3414,160,869,1118],"tags":[873,180,105,201,870,305,279],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-rivers-united","category-sport","category-super-eagles","category-yusuf","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-rivers","tag-sport","tag-super","tag-united","tag-yusuf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}