Former Nigeria national team captain and assistant coach Daniel Amokachi has stated his ambitions to take the Super Eagles to another level if he is entrusted the role of head coach in future.

The former player for the national team has worked as an assistant to Super Eagles coaches in recent years, including a successful spell under late Nigerian tactician Stephen Keshi in which the Nigerians won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in South Africa.

Since that glorious victory for the Super Eagles, the Nigerians have struggled to compete on the world and continental stages, with failure to qualify for recent AFCON tournaments revealing the downward spiral that the team has endured in the last three years.

Nigeria is ranked outside of the top 10 on the continent according to the September release of the FIFA rankings, with a 64th overall placing and 14th position in Africa.

Former Burkina Faso coach Gernot Rohr is currently in charge of the Super Eagles, with the German leading the Nigerians to a 1-0 victory over Tanzania in their most recent encounter, but they will not be present in Gabon this January when 16 African teams will battle it out for the title of the continent’s champion.

Amokachi is currently head coach of second division Finnish club JS Hercules, but the former Club Brugge, Everton and Besiktas player has his mind on the national team.

Amokachi believes that he has what it takes to lead the national team to greater heights.

“I know that one day I’ll be the head coach of the Nigeria national team and I will take Nigerian football to a level nobody has taken them to before,” Amokachi said, according to OwnGoalNigeria.

“The ability of player we have these days … any coach given this job is lucky. In my head, I know how we’d play and the blueprint is ready to go. With the talent there now, we should be surpassing my generation, the players from the 1990s,” the coach added.

“It’s sad, because people still refer back 20 years without looking at what we’ve got today, but the quality is second to none. They seem to have given everybody except me an opportunity but, by God’s grace, it will happen,” he said.