Amanju Pinnick, president of the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF), has spoken on reasons the men’s senior national
football team fails to perform to expectation.
Pinnick, who was speaking during a live programme monitored in Lagos this morning, revealed that the players are not friendly to each other off the pitch and this always rubs off when the players get into the field of play.
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“I noticed that Nigerian players are not friends, so how will they pass the ball to each other?” he queried.
“There’s a level of indiscipline in the team, you can imagine what happened the other day. We conceded a penalty kick and you went ahead to hit another player, can you do that with your club? We did not get as much support as we got from Kaduna from other places.
“The comment by Enyeama also heightened security in the state. Every player called upon to play for Nigeria henceforth will be accompanied with a code of conduct.”
While
commenting on the recent saga rocking Fifa, Pinnick noted that the
situation is still under investigation and should not be discussed.
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He, however, insisted that “Blatter promised to bring the world cup to Africa and he even did more than he promised for Africa
“Nobody can ignore Africa. There is an alliance between Africa and Europe and we come as an indivisible unit under Isa Hayatou. We have decided together, to tow a line and the support for Africa from Fifa can not wane. We are looking at who wants to come in and what benefits we can get from him.
“To us, all the scandals are subjective. There are investigations going on and they are ending in criminal charges.”
Pinnick, who was speaking during a live programme monitored in Lagos this morning, revealed that the players are not friendly to each other off the pitch and this always rubs off when the players get into the field of play.
Nigeria football team warming up
“I noticed that Nigerian players are not friends, so how will they pass the ball to each other?” he queried.
“There’s a level of indiscipline in the team, you can imagine what happened the other day. We conceded a penalty kick and you went ahead to hit another player, can you do that with your club? We did not get as much support as we got from Kaduna from other places.
“The comment by Enyeama also heightened security in the state. Every player called upon to play for Nigeria henceforth will be accompanied with a code of conduct.”
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He, however, insisted that “Blatter promised to bring the world cup to Africa and he even did more than he promised for Africa
“Nobody can ignore Africa. There is an alliance between Africa and Europe and we come as an indivisible unit under Isa Hayatou. We have decided together, to tow a line and the support for Africa from Fifa can not wane. We are looking at who wants to come in and what benefits we can get from him.
“To us, all the scandals are subjective. There are investigations going on and they are ending in criminal charges.”
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