The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Prince Sunday Udofia as Team Coordinator of the U23 males’s nationwide soccer staff, the Olympic Eagles, forward of their Africa Cup of Nations qualifying fixtures towards the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The federation additionally named Niyi Busari, an skilled journalist and proprietor of the net publication BSN Sports, because the staff’s Media Officer.
According to the NFF, Udofia beforehand served in the same capability with the Golden Eaglets, Nigeria’s U17 males’s nationwide staff, once they efficiently defended their FIFA U17 World Cup title in Chile in 2015.
Both appointees are anticipated to affix the squad because it resumes camp in Ijebu-Ode on Sunday, 25 October, forward of the two-legged U23 AFCON qualifying tie.
Nigeria will face DR Congo within the first leg on the TP Mazembe Stadium in Lubumbashi on Friday, 13 November.
The return leg is scheduled to happen 4 days later on the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne-Remo, because the Olympic Eagles search to advance within the qualifying marketing campaign.
Faridah Abdulkadiri
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