The Nigeria Minifootball Affiliation (NMA) has appointed Amarachi Vivian Emmanuel, present head coach of Sunshine Stars/Queens U-17 and U-15 sides, as the brand new handler of the Nigeria Ladies’s Minifootball Staff, marking a major increase for the nation’s technical improvement within the girls’s sport.
Emmanuel, one of many fast-rising coaches within the nation’s grassroots pathway, brings a strong mix of technical data and management expertise to the position.
She holds a CAF C Teaching License (Ladies’s Unique Course) from the Nigeria Soccer Federation, a Fundamental Teaching Certificates from the Nationwide Institute for Sports activities (NIS), Lagos, and a Diploma in Sports activities Science Expertise. She additionally participated within the Rio London College Transpersonal Management Philosophy Seminar in 2022.
Her appointment was confirmed in an official letter signed by NMA Secretary Normal Paul Maduakar, obtained by Sporting Hope. The affiliation praised her “confirmed technical experience, management qualities, and constant contribution to the expansion and improvement of girls’s minifootball in Nigeria.”
Based on the letter, Emmanuel will likely be answerable for offering strategic route, overseeing participant improvement, coordinating coaching programmes, and making certain the nationwide group’s preparedness for home and worldwide competitions. Her tenure begins instantly upon acceptance, with a mandate to work intently with the affiliation’s Technical Division.
The NMA added that additional particulars concerning her operational construction and expectations will likely be issued by the Technical Director, whereas reaffirming full confidence in her potential to guide the group with professionalism, self-discipline, and dedication.
Emmanuel’s appointment indicators a renewed push by the federation to raise the ladies’s minifootball panorama and strengthen Nigeria’s competitiveness on the worldwide stage.
