Super Eagles’ World Cup miss: Falcons most-successful World Cup coach blames Amaju Pinnick

Nigeria is not going to be at soccer’s largest pageant in Qatar later this month

Former Tremendous Falcons head coach Ismaila Mabo has voiced out his disappointment at Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be hosted by Qatar.

The Tremendous Eagles made it previous the preliminary spherical of the qualifying sequence however stumbled on the closing hurdle to everlasting rivals Ghana.

Mabo, who guided Nigeria’s Tremendous Falcons to their greatest World Cup outing – the quarterfinals – in 1999, believes former Nigeria Soccer Federation president and his board ought to take duty for the World Cup miss.

“It’s now that many Nigerians will really feel the agony of Tremendous Eagles’ failure to qualify for the World Cup,” Mabo advised The Guardian.

“If somebody had advised me that the large of Africa, Nigeria, would fail to qualify for Qatar 2022, I’d have tagged such individual a prophet of doom. However that’s the actuality.

“The usual of the Tremendous Eagles dropped so low and the previous NFF board led by Amaju Pinnick didn’t assist matter. One thing pressing needs to be achieved to revive the group.

“The Coaches Affiliation, Sports activities Journalists and different related our bodies should take the Tremendous Eagles’ failure to qualify for Qatar as an enormous problem.

“Even, whether it is known as revolution in Nigeria soccer, I don’t care. A scenario, whereby gamers and coaches had been not picked on benefit, whereas buddies and kin of board members strolled into the group. It’s worrisome.”

Nigeria’s Tremendous Eagles have made six appearances on the FIFA World Cup since their debut on the 1994 version.

The three-time African champions made the competitors’s spherical of 16 on three events (1994, 1998, and 2014), the group’s greatest outing up to now.