By Our Reporter
A FIFA licensed football
agent, Princely Nnamdi Nwanfor has slammed the Nigerian Football Federation,
NFF for not doing enough administratively.
Nwanfor, who is also the
Proprietor of Ajalli United, berated the NFF on a number of fronts. First on
the list of his grievances was the failure of the Amaju Pinnick-led board to
attend the burial rites of late captain of the Flying Eagles, who died recently
and had since been buried.
He said he was shocked when
he read on the Internet that there was no member of the NFF at the burial. In
his words, "I'm really angry with the NFF with the way and manner that
they treat our ex-internationals, I was shocked when I read that the NFF did
not send emissaries to the burial rites of the late Isaac Promise, only for me
to read that they were not carried along. That's no excuse to me, I was at the
service of song held for him in Atlanta, United States of America. It is
disheartening I must confess", a miffed Nwanfor told our correspondent
from his base in the USA.
He urged the NFF to tender
an unreserved apology to the family of the deceased and that they should stop
treating Nigeria's ex-footballers with disdain.
Still on the issue of
maladministration, he said the failure of the NFF to develop football at the
grassroots level is the reason Nigerian football had remained stunted; hence
the issue of age falsification always arises whenever the country is preparing
for age grade tournaments.
According to him, "We
are where we are today because we have failed to do the needful. What I mean by
this is that until we return to schools sports, there is no way we can measure
up with countries that take developmental football seriously."
Continuing, he registered
his pains on hearing that the country’s representatives even went ahead to vote
for another player in the run-in to the last CAF Female African Footballer of
the Year instead of Super Falcons' and Barcelona forward, Asisat Oshola.
Hear him: "It is a
shame that the they voted another player instead of our own Asisat, is that
logical? No. No matter the circumstance they should have given her their votes
if they had no sinister motive."
Away from the tongue lashing
of the NFF, Nwanfor commented on the transfer window asking Nigerian
footballers to be wary of the devil's carrot.
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