Hukumar kwallon kafa ta Najeriya (NFF) ta nada dan kasar Jamus Bruno Labbadia a matsayin sabon kocin Super Eagles, babbar kungiyar maza ta Najeriya.
Sanarwar ta fito ne da safiyar Talata ta hannun babban sakataren NFF, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, wanda ya tabbatar da cewa kwamitin zartaswa ya amince da shawarar da karamin kwamitin fasaha da ci gaba na nadin Labbadia nan take.
An haife shi a Darmstadt, Jamus a ranar 8 ga Fabrairu, 1966, Labbadia ya ji daɗin taka leda, inda ya sami kofuna biyu a ƙungiyar ƙwallon ƙafa ta Jamus kuma ya yi fice a manyan kungiyoyi, ciki har da Darmstadt 98, Hamburger SV, FC Kaiserslautern, Bayern Munich, FC Cologne, Werder. Bremen, Arminia Bielefeld, da Karlsruher SC. Musamman ma, ya lashe gasar Bundesliga tare da Bayern Munich a 1994.
A matsayin koci, Labbadia yana kawo gogewa mai yawa, bayan ya jagoranci fitattun kungiyoyin Bundesliga kamar Hertha Berlin, VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg, Hamburger SV, da Bayer Leverkusen.
Yana da lasisin UEFA Pro kuma shine Bajamushe na shida da ya jagoranci Super Eagles, ya bi sahun Karl-Heinz Marotzke, Gottlieb Göller, Manfred Höner, Berti Vogts, da Gernot Rohr. Musamman Höner ne ya jagoranci Najeriya ta zo ta biyu a gasar cin kofin Afrika a 1988, yayin da Rohr ya jagoranci tawagar zuwa gasar cin kofin duniya ta FIFA 2018 a Rasha.
Kalubalen da Labbadia zai fuskanta a nan take shi ne shirya Super Eagles don buga muhimman wasanni biyu na neman tikitin shiga gasar cin kofin Nahiyar Afrika (AFCON) na 2025 da Jamhuriyar Benin da Rwanda. An shirya wasannin ne a ranar Asabar 7 ga Satumba a Uyo, , da Talata 10 ga Satumba a Kigali, Rwanda. Haka kuma Super Eagles za ta sake buga wasu wasanni hudu na neman tikitin shiga gasar a watan Oktoba da Nuwamba domin kammala yakin neman zaben.
Wannan nadin ya biyo bayan kunnen doki da jamhuriyar Benin ta yi a baya-bayan nan a gasar neman gurbin shiga gasar AFCON ta 2025, inda ta sanya Najeriya a rukunin D tare da abokan gaba. Super Eagles dai za ta yi kokarin dawowa ne bayan ta sha kashi a hannun jamhuriyar Benin a baya-bayan nan a wasannin neman gurbin shiga gasar cin kofin duniya ta 2026.
Zuwan Labbadia na nuni da wani sabon babi ga kwallon kafa a Najeriya yayin da kungiyar ke kokarin sake kafa kanta a matsayin mai karfi a nahiyar.