TheCable

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have dismissed the Super Falcons coach Edwin Okon with his assistant Christopher Danjuma taking charge till a substantial handler is announced.

Okon took the team to the 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada, but they failed to go past the group stage finishing last in Group D behind Sweden, Australia, and the United States of America.

The NFF have now replaced him with Danjuma who will handle the team’s Olympics qualifier against Equatorial Guinea in July.

“We commend Okon and his crew for the services rendered to the country, and they did well to reclaim the African Women Championship title for the country in Namibia in October 2014, thus qualifying the team for the Women’s World Cup in Canada,” said Felix Anyansi, chairman of the NFF technical and development committee.

“The contract given to the crew has elapsed with the Women’s World Cup in Canada. Mr. Christopher Danjuma will now take over the team in acting capacity, pending the appointment of a substantive coaching crew, which process is on-going.

“The team will soon move to Port Harcourt to get used to the pitch on which it will play Equatorial Guinea in the third round of the Olympics qualifiers. The NFF will provide everything that the needs to succeed.”

The first leg of the match comes up on Saturday, July 18 and the return leg in Bata on August 2nd.