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Oruma: Pinnick Steps In, Offers Job In National Team, Picks Medical Bills

BEVERLY HILLS, January 22, (THEWILL) – President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, has stepped in to help distressed former Super Eagles midfielder, Wilson Oruma, who has been battling emotional disorder after being defrauded N2 billion by fake oil businessmen.

According to Vanguard, Pinnick has offered Oruma a job as an Assistant Coach in one of the National Teams and has picked all the hospital bills and relocated Oruma to a better equipped one.

Pinnick said that the former Golden Eaglets’ 1993 FIFA U-17 World Cup winning captain was recovering well.

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“By next week, Oruma will move into my house before they finish furnishing the three bedroom flat where he would stay,” Pinnick was quoted as saying.

“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 come and do a coaching course with them.”

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

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