Fanny Ikhayere Amun (born 1 October 1962) is a Nigerian former

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player and coach. He led the Nigeria national under-17 team to victory at the

1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship The 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship, the fifth edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup, tournament, was held in the cities of Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, Kobe, Nagoya, and Gifu, Gifu, Gifu City in Japan from 21 August to 4 September 1993. Players born ...

Career

Amun was born in

Osogbo Osogbo (also known as ''Oṣogbo'', and seldomly as ''Oshogbo'') is a city in Nigeria. It became the capital city of Osun State in 1991. Osogbo city seats the Headquarters of both Osogbo Local Government Area (situated at Oke-Baale Area of th ...

, Nigeria. In 1993, Amun coached the Nigeria national under-17 team at the

in Japan, helping the team win the competition. He coached the under-20 team in 1995 at the 1995 African Youth Championship, hosted by Nigeria. Amun was appointed assistant coach of the Nigeria national team for the

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in France. He was Secretary-General for the

Nigeria Football Federation The Nigeria Football Federation (known as Nigeria Football Association until 2008) is Nigeria's association football, football sports governing body, governing body. It was formally launched in 1945 and formed the first Nigerian national football ...

(NFF). Amun retired as an Assistant Director in the Federal Ministry of Sports in 2007.

Personal life

Amun is a Member of the

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. In 2013,

Honors

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Nigeria U17 *

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1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

Nigeria U20 *

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third place:

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

Orders

Member of the Order of the Niger The Order of the Niger (OON) is the second highest national award in Nigeria. It was instituted in 1963 and is junior to the Order of the Federal Republic, the highest order of merit in the country. Award The two highest honours, the Grand Com ...

References

Living people 1962 births Sportspeople from Osogbo Nigerian men's footballers Nigerian football managers Association football coaches Members of the Order of the Niger Men's association football players not categorized by position 20th-century Nigerian sportsmen {{Nigeria-footy-bio-stub