Nigeria Leagues
Time to breach the huge disparity in the prize money of the NPFL and NWFL winners
For years in Nigeria, the ladies soccer have continued to be handled like a toddler whose father’s love will not be full regardless of the exponential enchancment in Ladies’s soccer in different a part of the world.
In lots of nations, the Soccer Associations or Federations because the case could also be, have made aware effort to shut the hole by way of monetary rewards given to the ladies people when in comparison with the boys people.
An unlucky state of affairs continues to play out in Nigeria particularly the league the place the gulf exist between the Nigeria Ladies Soccer League and the Nigeria Premier Soccer League in so some ways particularly by way of the prize cash of league winners.
On Monday, it was introduced that the Nigeria Ladies Soccer League winner will go residence with the sum of 10 million naira.
A sorry state of affairs one will say and a far cry from the 100 million naira prize cash that the Nigeria Premier Soccer League winner will obtain within the 2022/2023 season.
In South Africa, the ladies’s soccer league; a league one which technically began in 2019 has the the winner receiving R2 million whereas the runners up obtain R1 million.
When in comparison with the Premier Soccer League, the winners go residence with R15 million whereas the runners up obtain R7.5 million in line with the SAFA Ladies’s League Wikipedia.
FIFA on it half is doing all the things potential to see ladies soccer take an upward slope and this will solely be achieved via a aware and decided effort to see to the expansion of the ladies’s soccer.
The NFF president, Ibrahim Musa Gusau and his staff have to do extra by giving the board of the Nigeria Ladies Soccer League administration physique extra help to make the league marketable.
The NFF have to make the league its “Personal” and make it fascinating for buyers to higher the lot of the taking part groups and the gamers.
It’s a course of, all of us agreed, however the league has been on this state for too lengthy and it can’t proceed like this. It is time to reposition the league and make it profitable for the good thing about all.
Uche Dozie