The events of the past two weeks have opened up a can of worms, plus the opportunity of a microscopic look beyond the superficiality of the incomprehensible drama.Nigerian football is currently being white-washed and sun-dried in the global information superhighway.
On the current billboard of Nigerian football are all the ugliness, the illegalities, the mediocrities, the injustices, the frailties, the failures in the system, everything in all their nakedness, ! It is so bad that no one knows exactly what to make of it all, or how best to resolve the resultant issues.
Even the era of football administration in Nigeria that is often referred to as a model is only so rated because the Super Eagles played extremely well and won trophies for Nigeria in the early to mid-1990s. Inside the boardroom, at the time , it was also chaotic. Then, Cote D’Ivoire in January of 2023 happened and the same players that broke the hearts of Nigerians with a lethargic performance in the final match were accorded a heroes’ welcome, feted, honoured and handsomely rewarded by the government.
This can only be the product of some ‘madness’ in the air of Nigerian football. He even went to the extent of announcing that he does not care even if he is never invited to the national team again. Who says such things?Finidi George’s resignation For several years we stuck with a goalkeeper that was glaringly short on safe-hands. I cannot understand why two foreign coaches definitely stuck to him. Is it confirmation that there is a deficit of great goalkeepers in the country?