Wilson Oruma Gets Nigeria U-20 National Team Job

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Melvin Amaju Pinnick has confirmed that Wilson Oruma will join the National U-20 team as an assistant coach.

The former Super Eagles midfielder, Wilson Oruma has been battling emotional disorder after being defrauded N2 billion by fake oil businessmen.

However, the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Mr Pinnick disclosed this to Vanguard over the weekend.

“By next week, Oruma will move into my house before they finish furnishing the three-bedroom flat where he would stay.

“His story is a pathetic one and we cannot allow him to die. I am rendering this help to him from one Warri man to another. We are Warri Ambassadors.

“All we need to do is to show him, love. I ate with him. He’s stable. The NFF will include him to play a role in our award ceremony coming up soon.

“Thereafter, we’ll include him in the U-20 national team. Come June, we’ll also include him in the contingent to Russia to cheer the Super Eagles.

I’m still talking with some of the clubs he played for to allow him to come and do a coaching course with them,’’ Pinnick said.

Oruma played for Nigeria’s U-17, U-23 and the senior national team, winning the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1993, the Olympic gold in 1996 and two bronze medals at the African Cup of Nations in 2002 and 2006.

At club level, he featured for RC Lens, Nancy, Samsunspor, Nimes, Servette, Sochaux, Marseille and Guingamp, and Kavala FC of Greece before he retired on November 26, 2010.