The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has retained the services of Ladan Bosso as coach of the Nigeria U20 team despite the failure of the team to make it to the last Africa U20 Cup of Nations.
Bosso led the Nigerian team to the WAFU tournament where they crashed out in the group stage, but the decision makers in Nigerian football still believe he has what it takes to discover players who will in the long run make the step up to the senior team.
Explaining the choice of Bosso, a senior board member of the NFF said it’s a case of the departure from the norm that age group teams must win tournaments before they are considered as successful.
He said the criteria that they are primarily using to gauge National team coaches is first of all, the progression of the players in the team and so far Bosso has succeeded in that regard.
The team will now regroup for camping in September as Bosso proposed early camping in order to be able to see the best of the boys before the start of qualifiers in February next year.
