Nigeria scouts for football coaches

Lagos Aug 23 (IANS) Nigeria s football governing body has started interviews of 59 short-listed coaches contending for various coaching positions in the national teams.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) in a statement made available to Xinhua on Tuesday said it is shopping for competent hands to handle National U-23 team in both the male and female categories.

Others include the U-17 male and female teams as well as the male team in the U-20 age group.

Chris Green the Chairman of NFF Technical and Development Committee and his members interviewed some of the applicants in Abuja the country s capital.

The NFF had earlier appointed Christopher Danjuma and others to handle the National Women U-20 team.

Those appointed to assist Danjuma were Wemimo Mathew (first assistant coach) Mansur Abdullahi (second assistant coach) as well as Abdul-Lateef Yusuf (goalkeeper trainer).

--IANS
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