The former Nigeria coach and captain, Sunday Oliseh, has been appointed as head coach of the Dutch second tier club Fortuna Sittard.

Oliseh, who stood down as Super Eagles coach ten months ago,previously played for Dutch giants Ajax from 1997 to 1999.

Fortuna Sittard confirmed his appointment on their website,saying he had signed an 18-month contract.

Oliseh, 42, has an option to extend it for another season.

He will take charge of training at Fortuna Sittard for the first time on 2 January.

The club’s Turkish owner, Isitan Gün, said he was ‘very happy’ to announce Oliseh’s arrival.

“With Sunday Oliseh we signed a young and ambitious coach with vision, one players look up to,” Gün said.

“We were looking for someone who plays attractive football combining it with the will to win. We think Sunday is the right one for this job,” Gun added.

Oliseh, who also played for Juventus and Borussia Dortmund during his club career, earned 63 caps for Nigeria.

He helped his country win the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations and Olympic gold in 1996.

Before taking on the role of head coach with Nigeria, Oliseh had previously coached Belgian lower tier side Verviétois.

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The fine form of Eupen Nigerian forward Henry Onyekuru has caught the attention of the coach of the Nigeria national team Gernot Rohr, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal.

Last night Onyekuru took his season goal tally to 10 for the season with a brace for Eupen in their 3- 0 win over KV Oostende in one of the Boxing Day fixtures in the Belgian League.

19 year old Onyekuru is in his first season in the Belgian top flight league after winning promotion with Eupen to the top division, where his six goals played a big role in their eventual promotion.

” We aware of his exploits in Belgium, am very happy and have seen his games. I love him a lot. He has something I fancy and love in a forward, he is doing well in a league that is well respected”, Rohr told Owngoalnigeria.com in London.

” Too early to say if we are going to call him up but we are watching him at close quarters and monitoring his progress, hopefully, if he keeps performing well for his team, then we have no choice than to call him up”.

A die hard fan of CSKA Moscow Alan Dubrev has advised the manager of Leicester City Claudio Ranieri on how to get the best out of Leicester City record buy Ahmed Musa.

Musa joined the club this summer on a club record transfer fee from CSKA Moscow, although that fee was broken when Leicester splash big on Islam Slimani of FC Porto.

The Nigerian scored 42 goals in the four and half years he spent in Russia with CSKA Moscow after his transfer from VV Venlo of Holland during the 2011/2012 January transfer window.

However the Nigerian is yet to fully integrate into the playing system of the team and according to Dubrev, it’s all down to the role the manager is handing to the 23 year old.

“Musa has pace but he is not a winger, playing him on the wings is restricting him to half of his abilities. He has pace and create goals but his pace is best utilise when he applies it in the box than on the flanks. Take a look at the goals he scored against Barcelona in the pre season friendly?” Dubrev told Owngoalnigeria.com

” When he came to CSKA Moscow, the coaches did same mistake at the start like Ranieri is doing at the moment playing him from the flanks. That season he only scored once although he spent just six months as he joined in January.

” The next season he scored 11 goals after he was given a role as the main striker playing in front of a playmaker in a 4-4-2 system. Since then he has been scoring double digit goals bar the 2013/2014 season when injury slowed him down after 7 goals”.

The goal scoring exploit of Manchester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho has earned him praises from his manager Pep Guardiola who hailed the Nigerian as a rare talent.

Iheanacho scored City’s second goal in their 3-0 win over Bournemouth and shortly after admitting that the second goal helped his side settled into the game properly, Guardiola also praised Iheanacho for the goal.

” He has goals in him, that part of his game has never been in doubt. We want him here and he knows it. He hasn’t been getting games as many would have expected but he is just 20 years old”, Guardiola said.

“There are few players of his age in Europe at the moment who are playing for top teams in top league, but you have to give it to him, he’s positioning and goal scoring sense is rare to find among kids of his age”.

Competitions for a spot in Manchester City attack is expected to be fierce when Gabriel Jesus finally joins the team in January, a transfer which could have an impact on Iheanacho’s career at the club.

Fans of Leicester City have demanded an explanation from manager Claudio Ranieri on why big money signing Ahmed Musa is not getting games at the club.

Musa the club’s second most expensive player in history was yesterday left on the bench for the entire duration of their 2-0 loss to Everton yesterday in the English Premier League.

So far the Nigerian has been a bit part player for the English Champions this season, with the manager relegating the Nigerian to the role of fourth choice striker at the club.

” Musa is not getting games, it’s quite unbelievable, how will he settle if he doesn’t play” a fan asked on twitter.

” Ahmed Musa is suppose to add raw pace to our attack, how Ranieri doesn’t think so is a mystery. If he doesn’t want to play him then he should send him back to Russia” another fan asked after the 2-0 defeat to Everton.

Super Eagles number one shot stopper Carl Ikeme helped his team Wolverhampton Wanderers pick up their second consecutive win in the Championship starring in their 3-2 win over Bristol City.

Despite conceding twice, once from Anglo Nigerian forward Tammy Abraham, the Wolves shot stopper was big when he needed to be for his team, and can largely be excused for the goals his team conceded.

There was drama in the game in the 90th minute when what looked like a legitimate goal by Bristol City wasn’t awarded by the referee, despite the ball clearly crossing the line.

If the goal has stood, it would have ended 3-3 but no thanks to the lack of goal line technology in the Championship, the goal which video replays clearly showed cross the line wasn’t given.

Aside the controversial moment, Ikeme the 30 year old Wolves shot stopper is close to agreeing a new deal with the Molineux outfit with his current deal set to run out next summer.

Ikeme, who came through the academy at Wolves and has established himself as the club’s number one keeper in the past four seasons, has publicly stated he is keen to sign a new deal.

And Thelwell said positive discussions had taken place as recently as this week.

“We’re not quite there yet but we’ve had really good discussions,” he said.

“Things are progressing well and we’d be hopeful of securing him for the future.

“We’re not there yet but discussions are ongoing.”

Wolves went into the season with three senior players – Ikeme, David Edwards and skipper Danny Batth – all in the last year of their contracts.

Reports coming out of England has it that Anglo Nigerian forward Ademola Lookman will join English Premier League side Everton from Charlton Athletic on the first of January.

He is reportedly being tracked by host of English Premier League clubs but it appears Everton have won the race for his signature in a deal reportedly worth over £10m.

The highly rated 19 year old is widely regarded as one of the finest talent in English football with 10 goals from 45 first team appearances for the Addicks.

Lookman is expected to add firepower to the forward line of Everton as manager Ronald Koeman seek an alternative to top scorer Romelu Lukaku, who could be in need of a rest as the season progresses.

Born to Nigerian parents in the United Kingdom, he has already represented England at youth level, but Nigeria are reportedly keeping a close watch on his progress.

A mild mix up ensued between Manchester City duo Yaya Toure and Kelechi Iheanacho during the presentation of the man of the match award shortly after their 3-0 win over Bournemouth.

Toure was named man of the match, after an all-action display which culminated in him scoring the first, and decisive, goal from the penalty spot.

Iheanacho, who had added the second of City’s three was also invited to give his post-match thoughts, and both men seemed to be giving the TV cameras the sort of platitudes expected after a hard-fought, but expected, Premier League win.
But then came the awkward moment as Toure, who had earlier in the interview mentioned that it was his son’s birthday on Christmas Day, was handed the award.

‘Oh nice, thank you very much, I will give it to my boy then,’ said the Ivorian midfielder.
Iheanacho, however, had presumably not been listening to the heart-warming tale of Toure Jnr telling his father he was destined to score a Boxing Day goal, and assumed that ‘my boy’ was simply a term of endearment for Toure Snr’s Nigerian team-mate.

The striker reached out to take the award he thought he was being given, only for Yaya to start laughing, slap his hand away and say: ‘No, it’s not you, my boy!’
Toure than wandered off, laughing along with the interviewer, as Iheanacho looked confused and, let’s face it, a little hurt.

Still, as the young forward had told us three times in his interview beforehand, the most important gift for City was the three points, so maybe he won’t be too disappointed to have missed out on the personal award.

Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho is now officially the striker with the best minutes per goal ratio in the history of the Premier League.

According to Opta, the 20 year old Nigerian who scored Manchester City’s second goal in their 3-0 thrashing of Hull City is has a goal ratio of one goal every 96 minutes.

So far he has scored 12 Premier League goals from just 19 shots on target, and this season alone he has been directly involved in seven goals this season.

His performances this season played a big part in winning him this latest honour as he has been directly involved in 7 goals from just 401 minutes of Premier League action this season.

He has found the back of the net four times, while on four other occasions he has assisted teammates to score.