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Ex-Nigeria coaches Samson Siasia and Austin Eguavoen are among five coaches short listed by South Africa’s Orlando Pirates for next season.
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Champions Pirates have parted ways with the Brazilian Julio Cesar Leal after some indifferent results.
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Augusto Palacios will act as coach till the end of this season, club officials said.
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MTNFootball.com has specially gathered that the other shortlisted coaches are from South Africa, Brazil and Russia.
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“The shortlisted coaches are to be interviewed next month,” a top source informed MTNFootball.com
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Eguavoen, who has had a brief stint at another South African club Black Leopards, is presently coach of NPL front runners Enyimba after he quit as Nigeria Olympic team coach in November.
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Siasia, on the other hand, was fired as Nigeria coach in November after the Eagles failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
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He has been picked as one of the coaches for the yet-to-be-launched India Premier Soccer League.
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Siasia has already confirmed he has been approached in connection with the Pirates top post.
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Former Nigeria coach Shuaibu Amodu also coached Pirates between 1996 and 1997.
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Other Nigerian coaches who have worked in South Africa are Musa Abdullahi (Free State Stars) and Okey Emordi (Bush Bucks).