as the head coach of the under-20 team after the finished a disappointing 3rd in the 2009 African Youth Championship. He received a six-month contract to coach Heartland F.C. in July 2010. On 4 November 2010, he was named as the national team coach to succeed Swedish Lars Lagerbäck. He was fired on 28 October 2011 for failing to take the Nigeria team to the 2012 African Nations Cup in Gabon & Equatorial Guinea. Siasia was one of the five foreign managers auctioned in February 2012 for the new Bengal Premier League Soccer. His former national teammate, Jay-Jay Okocha, was bought by the same club from the five icon players up for auction. On 26 February 2016, he was named by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the Chief Coach of the Nigeria national team, the Super Eagles, to be assisted by Salisu Yusuf, Emmanuel Amunike and Alloysius Agu after the resignation of Sunday Oliseh from the position. He returned to the U-23 post in 2015 and led Nigeria to the Rio Olympics. In February 2017 he was one of a number of managers on the shortlist for the vacant Rwanda national team manager role. In April 2018 he was one of 77 applicants for the vacant Cameroon national team job. In August 2019 he was handed a lifetime ban by FIFA related to match fixing. He said he would appeal but was in no rush to do so. In June 2021, Siasia's appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport earned him a reduction of the suspension to five years and the cancellation of the additional fine of 50,000 Swiss francs ($54,000). References External links Official Web Site of Samson Siasia at SiaOne.com Official Web Site of SiaOne Soccer Academy at SiaOne.com 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Lagos Nigerian footballers Nigeria under-20 international footballers Nigeria international footballers Nigerian expatriate footballers Africa Cup of Nations-winning players 1992 African Cup of Nations players 1994 African Cup of Nations players 1994 FIFA World Cup players 1995 King Fahd Cup players Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Nigeria Nigerian football managers K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen players FC Nantes players Al Hilal SFC players Perth Glory FC players Hapoel Tzafririm Holon F.C. players Belgian Pro League players El-Kanemi Warriors F.C. players Ligue 1 players Liga Leumit players Primeira Liga players Expatriate footballers in Belgium Expatriate footballers in France Expatriate footballers in