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The Nigeria Soccer Federation has appointed Chris Danjuma as Head Coach of the U20 Girls Nationwide Staff, Falconets, following a screening and interview course of by the NFF Technical Committee.
In keeping with the NFF, the screening course of started with a one-week public discover which requested for purposes from suitably certified individuals, after which short-listed candidates have been contacted and interviewed by a panel of the Technical Committee.
Danjuma, who has taken short-term cost of the Senior Girls Nationwide Staff, Tremendous Falcons, previously, led the Falconets to the quarter-finals of final 12 months’s FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup finals in Costa Rica.
He will probably be assisted by former U20 and U17 ladies’ assistant coach Mansur Abdullahi, and former Tremendous Falcons’ midfielder Effioanwan Ekpo, the NFF stated on Wednesday.
Ekpo, who represented Nigeria for 10 years between 2000 and 2010, featured on the 2003 and 2007 FIFA World Cup finals in USA and China respectively, on the 2004 and 2008 Girls Olympic Soccer Tournaments in Athens and Beijing respectively, and was a Girls Africa Cup of Nations gold medallist on three events. She additionally featured on the 2007 All-Africa Video games in Algiers.
Yahaya Audu, would be the goalkeeper coach of the crew.
The Falconets will start their 2024 FIFA U20 Girls’s World Cup qualifying marketing campaign with a second spherical, first leg encounter towards Mauritius in Saint Pierre on Sunday, eighth October, with the return leg scheduled for the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja on Saturday, 14th October 2023.
