“NIGERIA FOOTBALL PROBLEM IS BEYOND NFF” – OLISEH

The President, FC Ebedei, Barrister Churchill Oliseh, has said that the challenges confronting soccer improvement in Nigeria are too quite a few and past the aptitude of the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF).

Oliseh mentioned these issues would persist till a regulatory construction and framework are correctly put in place.

He said this in Osogbo throughout an interactive session with the Sports activities Writers Affiliation of Nigeria (SWAN), Osun State Chapter at its month-to-month visitor look programme tagged: ‘Stakeholders Discussion board.’

In response to Oliseh, the nation soccer governing physique, NFF, has been treating signs of the ailment and never the ailment itself, including that these issues would perpetually stay at apogee till the NFF takes a holistic take a look at them, establish these issues and strategy them with corresponding options.

The famend soccer gamers’ agent mentioned: “You can not proceed to do the identical factor the identical approach and count on a distinct outcome. This is the reason there hasn’t been concrete improvement in our soccer sector and why we battle to boost a formidable group for the nation.”

Talking additional, Oliseh, a former goalkeeper of Brewery Restricted Ilesa mentioned many golf equipment in Nigeria don’t have a framework or goal of their institution. “This is the reason solely the golf equipment owned and financed by the federal government thrive and are in a position to maintain the tempo.”

He added: “Nigeria groups lack correct construction. We will’t meet up with the worldwide normal with the way in which soccer golf equipment are managed in Nigeria. In Europe, not all groups are combating to win trophies and they’re being profitable. The reverse is the case in Nigeria as the main target of most groups is to win the league.

“Whenever you take a look at the quantity given the league winners in Nigeria, it’s far under their expenditure in a season. So, the place is the return on funding? What’s the acquire? Till that is finished, golf equipment will proceed to be having challenges.”

The elder brother of former Tremendous Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh, urged whoever turns into the subsequent President of NFF to take the bull by the horn and restructure soccer sector in order that Nigeria can belong to the category of elite within the soccer world