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The technical crew of the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, headed by Florence Omagbemi, has called to camp 40 players ahead of the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations qualifying fixture against either of Senegal or Guinea. Seven –time champions Nigeria have drawn a bye into the second round of the qualifying series, with the final competition to hold in Cameroon in November. The senior women teams of Senegal and Guinea will contend over two legs in March, with the winner to battle the Super Falcons in home-and-away contests between 4 th – 12 th April. Goalkeepers Ibubeleye Whyte and Sandra Chichi, defenders Onome Ebi, Josephine Chukwunonye, Ngozi Ebere and Joy Jegede, midfielders Halimatu Ayinde, Ngozi Okobi, Evelyn Nwabuoku and Joy Bokiri, and strikers Asisat Oshoala, Desire Oparanozie, Chinwendu Ihezuo and Francisca Ordega are among those called. All invited players are expected to report at Serob Legacy Hotel, Wuye, Abuja on Tuesday, March 1. FUL

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The Nigeria Football Federation have appointed Samson Siasia as the head coach of the Super Eagles after Sunday Oliseh resigned on Thursday. Siasia will be assisted by Emmanuel Amuneke with Salisu Yusuf and Alloy Agu keeping their posts from the Oliseh circle. These changes are coming on the back of Oliseh’s shock resignation just few weeks before the all-important back-to-back 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying clashes with Egypt. Siasia, who has coached the Super Eagles in the past, has been mandated to navigate Nigeria through the two matches with Egypt next month. Alloy Agu and Salisu Yusuf were part of Oliseh’s backroom staff to the ill-fated 2016 CHAN tournament in Rwanda but have retained their positions despite Oliseh’s resignation.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has confirmed that the ‘Dream Team’ will play an international friendly with the Brazilian Under-23 side on Thursday, March 24 in Brazil. “The CBF is happy to host the champions of Africa, the Nigeria Olympic team, on the 24th March Fifa date at 7pm at the stadium of Kleber Andrade in the city of Cariacica, Vitoria, Espirito Santo. “The match will serve as preparation for both teams for their participation in the Olympic Games Rio 2016,” The Confederation of Brazil Football (CBF) said in a statement. Nigeria are reigning African champions at under-23 level after lifting the crown in Senegal last year and will look to replicate the feat of the class of 1996 who won Olympic gold at Atlanta ‘96.

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Former Nigerian captain Sunday Oliseh has resigned as coach of the national team with immediate effect. In a letter sent to the Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday, Oliseh tendered his resignation and thanked the NFF for the opportunity to serve the country. Oliseh, who took over the Super Eagles job in July 2015, has had a topsy-turvy relationship with the NFF and also had a few run-ins with players. His tenure as coach was characterised by incessant tiffs with the football ruling house that culminated in an eight-minute rant on social media chiding agents, journalists and his assistants whom he claimed were working against him after Nigeria’s ousting at the 2016 Chan tournament in Rwanda. Supersport.com scooped that Oliseh sent in his resignation after collecting the back-log of his salaries that were owed him by the NFF. Dr Mohammed Sanusi, Secretary General of the NFF, confirmed to supersport.com that the former Ajax Amsterdam midfielder has

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