The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF)have insisted that despite recent failures by the country’s various teams, Nigeria football is on track on the back of the Super Eagles results.
According to an official statement from the NFF, president Amaju Pinnick said the best performance indicator for any country in international football is the A team, in this case Super Eagles, which in recent times drew with five –time world champions Brazil and Ukraine in friendlies, and defeated Benin and Lesotho in 2021 AFCON qualifying matches.
These, after finishing third at the first –ever 24 –team AFCON in Egypt this year summer. Moreover, a high number of the players in the present Super Eagles squad passed through the various developmental teams, showing that Nigeria is moving in the right direction.
The NFF gave several excuses for the poor results of the country’s teams in response to sports minister order for a formal explanation.
Pinnick blamed inadequate and late release of funds as well as recent corruption investigations by EFCC and ICPC of the NFF leadership for disappointing performances.
He defended the coaches of the various teams as the best at the time of their appointment, while promising to revamp of the NFF technical department, improved supervision of the teams by the NFF technical committee as well as open and transparent process to select new head coaches for the teams affected.
