Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation, Musa Amadu is growing grey hairs over where to get money to prosecute the 2015 African Cup of Nations double header against the Red Devils of Congo and Bafana Bafana of South Africa next month
The Super Eagles would confront the Red Devils of Congo in Calabar on September 6 and travel to Cape Town, South Africa to play Bafana Bafana on September 10.
Amadu said that Nigeria would need a whopping N20 million to prosecute the two matches but was at cross roads over where the money would come from.
The elections of the Executive board of the Nigeria Football Federation which holds tomorrow appears to have taken the front burner over the two Nations Cup qualifiers and Amadu does not feel comfortable with that.
‘’It is sad that nobody is talking about the matches. Everybody is talking about the elections. As we speak, we don’t have a coach to over-see the players who have been called to camp for the matches. It is worrisome. These qualifiers are important and deserve attention but the elections are not helping in this matter’’, Amadu said.
Speaking too, former scribe of the NFA, Dr Tijani Yusuf decried the fight for the soul of Nigerian football over the matches in the qualifiers. ‘’Nobody is talking about the matches and they still have no coach to supervise the matches. Instead, what we hear every day are pretenders who call themselves stakeholders scrambling for positions.”
(Vanguard)
