SCORENigeria has gathered that former Super Eagles stars Samson Siasia and Daniel Amokachi are among the coaches who have applied to the NFF to lead the country’s Olympic team.
Both Siasia and Amokachi previously led this team.
Siasia, for one, led the team to finish as silver medalists at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and bronze medalists at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
He also headed the Super Eagles as well as the U20s, the Flying Eagles.
The NFF are soon to appoint a new coach for the U23s to replace Salisu Yusuf, who last held the position.
Since Samson Siasia has applied for U-23 Team coach, what NFF are still waiting for. NFF should remember that the FORMAT used to qualify for Olympic has changed compare to Old format.
Since the introduction of NEW FORMAT, the coach like Equavoen, Imama-Amapakabo, Salisu-Yusuf failed woefully to qualify for U-23 Olympic game in 2012, 2020, 2024 as a result of over reliance of foreign base players to prosecute qualifications.
Most of our players in Europe were not released by their respective club sides, which their clubs claimed that the U-23 AFCON competition (new format) was not in FIFA CALENDAR.
It is ONLY COACH SIASIA that was able to qualify U-23 Team for Olympic game in 2016 with the new format. And this is due to the fact that Coach SIASIA is a coach that knows how to build & groom players from the scratch and not over reliance of super stars (ready-made) foreign base players to prosecute a match.
NFF HAS TO BE SERIOUS WITH U-23 TEAM because is an avenue to access and produce good players next to Super eagle team. From this U-23 Team, many players will able to be ACCESSED, TESTED & TRUSTED before promoted to MAIN Super eagle team.
No players will be jumping directly to Super eagle team EXCEPT he was an EXTRAORDINARY plyer.
In the past U-23 OLYMPIC TEAM, when the like of KANU, BABAYARO, TARIBO, BABANGIDA, AIYEGBENI, AGHAHOWA, ISAAC-OKOROKWO, NSOFOR, EFE, OBASI, ANICHEBE, SHE HU-ABUBAKAR, ETEBO, EKONG promoted to Super eagle team, none of them disappointed, because we have already knew their QUALITIES AND POTENTIALS