Confusion over Siasia, Amoo’s choice for U- 23 Eagles

Soccer fans in Nigeria may have to wait for the choice of the coach that would handle the Nigeria U-23 National team as the football governing body, the Nigeria Football Federation, is yet to decide who will bag the coaching job.
It was learnt that the NFF Technical Committee has endorsed embattled Sunshine Stars Coach, Fatai Amoo, for the job but still awaiting the final ratification of the Executive Board of the NFF before the coach’s appointment would be made public.
It was also learnt that the Amoo has not received his letter of appointment to that effect.
This has now given room for some Board members and members of the Technical Committee of the NFF to re-assess the situation and want somebody that had handled the job well before to take over the U-23 national team job.
Investigations also revealed that some of the football big wigs, despite having a reservation about former Coach Samson Siasia as allegedly being arrogant, were of the opinion that the Bayelsa State born coach will handle the job well since he took the same team to the final of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China where Nigeria bowed 0-1 to the superiority of Argentina to win the silver medal of the football event.
Some were of the opinion that since Amoo has not handled a national team before, he should start from the national U- 20 team level to gather national team experience despite being an experienced coach from the domestic league.
Ben Iroha is also warming up for the Flying Eagles job and has been endorsed by some members of the Executive
Committee of the NFF too.
As it is now, only Fatai Amoo has a good chance of at least manning either the U-20 or the U-23 national teams.
But majority of the soccer loving Nigerians would prefer the choice of Siasia as the U-23 national team job.
Recently, Siasia has made it public that he is opened to handling the junior national team again but he has disclosed that he won’t handle any other team but the U- 23 national team.
This has made it difficult for the football house to come out with a final decision on the matter.
Soccer loving Nigerians are anxiously waiting for how the Barrister Christopher Green-led NFF Technical Committee will resolve the issue on time for the concerned coaches to start work before the qualifiers for the next edition of African championships.