Golden Eaglets Coach Manu Garba Replaced With Emmanuel Amunike

Promotion comes with success. This is always an encouragement to anyone that receives it. The National U-17 team crew member and players are in no way exempted in terms of sports promotion from the National football governing body. See details below

The Nigerian Football Federation has announced the Golden Eaglets assistant coach Emmanuel Amunike as the head coach of the national U-17 team.

Coach Manu Garba and assistant, Nduka Ugbade have been promoted along with the victorious team that won FIFA U-17 world cup have been promoted to the national U-20 team.

According to mtnfootball, the newly promoted Flying Eagles and crew (2013 Fifa U-17 champions) are due to set up training camp in March.

“We want to ensure that this present U-17 team grow with their coach. So as we are elevating the players, we are also elevating the coaches,” a top official of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) informed M TNFootball.com

“However, we have ensured continuity by keeping Emmanuel Amunike, so we can sustain the style, character of the Golden Eaglets.”