Why We Dropped Siasia, Amuneke – NFF

THE Technical and Development Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has explained why the duo of coaches Samson Siasia and Emmanuel Amuneke were not considered for the job of handling the Super Eagles for the two major international friendlies billed for May and June this year.

Rising from her meeting held at the NFF secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, the committee explained that the decision to leave out Siasia and Amuneke from the Eagles job was to enable the two coaches concentrate fully on their pending important assignments of taking the Dream team VI and the Flying Eagles to the Rio 2016 Olympics and the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations tournaments respectively.

The committee strongly solicited for the NFF Board to give Coach Samson Siasia all the support towards winning gold medal of the men’s football tournament of this year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.

The Committee praised Amuneke for promoting most of the FIFA U- 17 World Cup winning players to the Flying Eagles team , noting with delight that his action was in tandem with the vision of the present NFF administration ‘s promotion of growth, continuity and seamless transition of the age grade players to the senior teams.

It mandated the big wigs of the Abuja Glass house to support the world cup winning coach as the national U- 20 team prepares for the race for the Zambia 2017 tournament.

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