Football
The Nigeria Football Federation has condemned, in very strong
terms, a report in some media outlets including America’s Cable News Network
(CNN) that it cannot fly the Super Eagles to a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying
match in Ndola on Sunday, 9th October 2016.
Nigeria’s football – governing body viewed the report as baseless,
misleading and despicable, not only against Nigerian football, but against the
Nigerian nation.
The NFF insisted that the report was the concoction of an idle
mind and challenged the purveyors of the falsehood to name their source.
On Thursday, the NFF assured Nigerians that it had concluded
arrangements on getting players and officials of the Super Eagles to Abuja for
a training camp starting on Sunday, 2nd October, getting the team to and from
Zambia and getting the players back to their various Clubs after the national
assignment.
The body called for the support and prayers of Nigerians at this
time, and urged that the players be allowed to focus on the big task of
qualifying the nation to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, without so much negative
stories and insinuations.
The NFF noted that over the past few months, some persons have
made it their business to fabricate unhealthy stories about the NFF and
Nigerian football. It called on all stakeholders to disregard, henceforth, any
report about the NFF that did not emanate from the NFF Communications
Department.
While admitting financial challenges as a result of the current
state of the economy, the NFF expressed solid faith that matters would never
get to the point of Nigeria being unable to get its National Team to the venue
of a competitive match or championship.
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