Dosu slams LMC for Rivers, Plateau United humiliation

Former Tremendous Eagles goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, says Nigerians ought to blame the exit of the nation’s representatives in each the CAF Champions League and CAF Confederation Cup over the weekend on the League administration firm (LMC), for its failure to begin the league.

Whereas Rivers United was humiliated 6-0 by Wydad Casablanca in Morocco, Plateau United misplaced 0-1 to Esperance of Tunisia in Tunis. Each groups crashed out within the CAF Champions league. The 2 groups have been drawn towards North African sides within the Confederation Cup.

Additionally, within the CAF Confederation Cup, Kwara United misplaced 0-2 to defending champions, RS Berkane of Morocco in an away match.

Dosu mentioned that Nigerian soccer followers shouldn’t blame the groups for his or her woeful performances, however relatively the LMC ought to get the flak for failing to begin the league.

“The query we must always ask ourselves is, ‘why will we begin our league late.’ Nearly all African international locations began their leagues earlier than the Champions League and Nigeria is but to choose a date for the graduation of the competitors. It’s a disgrace.

“In case you have a look at all of the north African golf equipment, they’ve performed greater than 10 matches of their varied leagues earlier than enjoying CAF tourneys, so, inform me how can we defeat them when our golf equipment are usually not enjoying aggressive league matches?” he requested.

The Atlanta ‘96 Olympic soccer gold medalist didn’t consider that the North African golf equipment are the perfect in Africa, saying the failure to kick off the league on time had an adversarial impact on the nation’s representatives within the continental tourneys.

“The likes of Stationery Shops, Julius Berger, 3SC, Rangers, Pillars, and Enyimba used to beat the North African golf equipment earlier than. Presently, we’re afraid to play them as a result of our league has not commenced in earnest. Don’t neglect that Enyimba received the Champions League twice, 3SC received Confederation Cup as soon as, and Julius Berger performed within the Confederation Cup ultimate twice. We used to beat all these North African golf equipment earlier than as a result of our league was higher organised and we all the time kicked off the competitors earlier than the graduation of CAF tourneys”

“However in the present day, our league just isn’t properly organised and begins delayed. That is what we will likely be seeing on the continental degree.”

The founding father of Dosu Soccer Academy of Lagos additionally attributed the Nigerian golf equipment defeats to lack of focus.

“One other factor I could say that basically labored towards our golf equipment is the shortcoming to pay attention to the top of the sport. Plateau United conceded the objective on the final minute, Rivers United misplaced complete focus instantly after the purple card to one in all their gamers, whereas Kwara United gave away two targets to the opponents, that are nonetheless attributed to the shortage of focus.”