Opinion: Taking conscious, concerted steps to tackle Nigeria football challenges

It’s by no means simple for one to be saddled with obligations of managing a physique or group of any sort in a rustic.

Whether it is soccer, the duty turns into harder attributable to the truth that it’s a sport lots of people comply with, spend money on and are nonetheless investing into.

No chief, usually talking, desires to enter administration, management or administration with no intention to succeed.

So, it’s true if one says the earlier directors of soccer on this nation have tried irrespective of how little to assist curb or cut back the challenges lurking across the corridors of soccer in Nigeria.

Therefore, this write up is to remind Mr. Ibrahim Musa Gusau, the President of the Nigeria Soccer Federation these challenges they want to sort out, urging them to be aware, concerted and tactical of their efforts to scale back to the barest minimal or get rid of fully these challenges in Nigeria soccer.

The primary difficulty, although it could appear insignificant, is the follow of getting the NFF president been concerned all that issues the federation. He’s actually the one one within the glasshouse.

Sure, the President is the picture of the federation, however the follow of getting all the pieces revolve across the President has made it tough for accountability to attempt in our soccer.

We have to know who and who’s holding what workplace and they need to be seen to be held accountable for no matter occurs in that workplace.

For years, it appears no different workplace or function within the NFF works as personalities in these places of work are neither seen nor heard  as a result of their performance is much fetched.

It’s in Nigeria that the NFF head is well-known to the general public, however barely do the individuals know who majority of the league gamers are.

On the nationwide groups, it’s excessive time we’ve got a construction to outline what we wish and what kind of soccer we need to play as a nation from the senior to the junior groups.

Having a physique or a construction to outline our type of soccer and deciding what’s to be achieved in a brief or long run will go a protracted method to serving to us obtain nice success and assist put sq. pegs in sq. holes after we appoint who coaches the the male or feminine nationwide groups.

On the Junior groups; the U-13, U-15, 17, 20, there must be a plan for the groups. In reality, it isn’t about tagging these groups as developmental groups for developmental tournaments, however doing sufficient to point out they’re certainly for the long run.

Establishments must be created to see to those junior occasions the place the event, administration, teaching of those gamers in these cadres are taken care of.

The plan may even see to the transition of the gamers from one stage one other until they attain the senior ranges.

It has been mentioned and reported for years that the NFF is financially constrained and these have hindered lots of the progress of the sport.

It is time the picture, marketability and viability of the NFF is restored, strengthened and sustained so the federation sells itself to potential sponsors.

A state of affairs the place transparency is upheld can woo personal our bodies or people to belief and the federation financially.

On the a part of the league, an interim physique has been created and I want that whilst this physique has been given phrases of reference, the physique must be remodeled right into a physique that may put the proper constructions in place to advance the league in the long term.

I can really feel an air of greatness about to be achieved with this administration led by Alhaji Gusau and I can solely hope that our soccer will start to take the proper form quickly than we will ever think about.