Augustine Eguavoen

Augustine Eguavoen
	Augustine Eguavoen as the Nigeria National Team Manager
Personal information
Full name	Augustine Owen Eguavoen
Date of birth	19 August 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth	Sapele, Nigeria
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Defender (Right-wingback)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1985–1986	ACB Lagos
1986–1990	Gent
1990–1994	K.V. Kortrijk
1994–1995	Ourense
1995–1996	K.V. Kortrijk
1996–1997	Sacramento Scorpions
1997–1998	Torpedo Moscow
1998–2001	Sliema Wanderers
Total
National team
1987–1998	Nigeria
Teams managed
2000–2001	Sliema Wanderers
2002	Bendel Insurance
2002–2003	Nigeria U20
2005–2007	Nigeria
2008	Black Leopards
2008–2009	Enyimba International
2010	Nigeria (caretaker)
2010–2011	Nigeria U23
2012–2013	Sharks F.C.
2013	COD United F.C.
2014	Bendel Insurance F.C.
2014–2016	Gombe United F.C.
2017	Sunshine Stars
2021-2022	Nigeria
Honours
Men's football
Representing Nigeria (as manager)
Africa Cup of Nations
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Augustine Owen Eguavoen (born 19 August 1965) is a Nigerian football manager and former player who serves as manager of the Nigeria national team. Considered as one of the best Nigerian centre-backs of all time. He was known as a strong defender who excelled in the air very well, he was capable of clearing every ball with his overhead kick as his trademark.

Club career

Eguavoen began his senior playing career in Nigeria with ACB Lagos. In 1986 he moved to Europe, where he played for KAA Gent and KV Kortrijk in Belgium for a total of eight and a half years. For the second half of the 1994/95 season he was loaned to the Spanish second division club CD Ourense. After the Galicians were relegated at the end of the season, he returned to Kortrijk.

At the end of the 1995/96 season he moved to the United Soccer League to the Sacramento Scorpions until the end of the year. He spent the 1997 and 1998 seasons in Russia with Torpedo Moscow. In 1999 he moved to Malta, where he played for the Sliema Wanderers, and in the 2000/01 season as a player-coach. He ended his playing career there in 2001.

International career

Augustine Eguavoen played for the Nigeria national football team from 1987 to 1998. In 1988 he took part in the Olympic football tournament and played in all three games. He also took part in the African Championships in 1988 and 1992. At the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, he celebrated the greatest success of his playing career by winning the tournament. With this victory, Nigeria qualified for the 1995 King Fahd Cup as continental champions. In this precursor tournament to the FIFA Confederations Cup, he scored his penalty in the penalty shootout in the game for third place against Mexico to make it 3-2 but Nigeria lost 5-4.

Eguavoen was named to Nigeria's squad for the 1994 FIFA World Cup in the United States in Nigeria's first appearance at a World Cup finals. There he was used in the first two group games against Bulgaria and Argentina and in the round of 16 game against Italy.

He was again in the Nigerian squad at the 1998 World Cup in France, but was only used in the final group game against Paraguay.