A former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Emmanuel Ndubuisi Egbo, has become the first African to win a European league title and qualify for the UEFA Champions League.
Egbo achieved the feat by guiding Albanian side, Tirana FC to the country’s Super Lig title last weekend, becoming the first Nigerian and African do so.
By winning the 2019/2020 league title, the first in 11 years, Tirana will also be featuring in the 2020/2021 UEFA Champions League.
According to reports, the Albanian side were placed 8th on the log when they decided to hire the Nigerian tacticain.
With Egbo in charge, the club romped to the league title with 69 points in 34 games, seven points above second-placed Kukesi.
Speaking to social media platform NSM, the coach said, “I was happy we emerged champions of the league. I wasn’t following the statistics, it was when people were talking about it that I realised the enormity of what we have achieved.
“When I left the club as a player and they saw what I was doing with other teams in the course of my goalkeeping coaching career and I was invited also to come because they know that I have the mentality, character, personality and philosophy that the team need and I was given the opportunity from the goalkeeping coach to the assistant coach before they asked me to take over as the head coach.”
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