Ibrahim Gusau, President of the Nigeria Football Federation, will on Thursday, June 20, 2024, inaugurate the Federation’s Futsal and Beach Soccer Sub-Committee at the NFF Secretariat, Abuja.

The committee comprises Otuekong Essien as chairman, the Chairman of Chairmen of Nigeria Football, Ahmed Yusuf (Fresh) as vice chairman. Other members include Aminu Inuwa, Suleiman Yahaya-Kwande, Liameed Gafaar, Richard Jideaka and Abubakar Umar (Barde) as secretary.

The Futsal and Beach Soccer Sub-Committee will be responsible for the organization of all futsal and beach soccer competitions and will deal with all matters associated with futsal and beach soccer.

Nigeria has been a continental and to some extent global, power in beach soccer in previous years, with the Supersand Eagles winning the Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations in 2007 and 2009 and reaching the quarter-finals of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Italy 13 years ago.

The Confederation of African Football last week conducted the draw for this year’s Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series with the Supersand Eagles drawn to play Mauritania home and away next month. A total of 14 countries will be involved in the qualifiers, with the seven winners to join hosts Egypt at the finals.

Mauritania will host the Supersand Eagles on a day between July 19 and July 21, with Nigeria hosting the return leg a week later.

For the first time, the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup will take place on African soil, when Seychelles stages the tournament next year