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Former Nigeria Football Association vice chairman, Brigadier
General Gregory Adebiyi has advised the Nigeria Football Federation egg-heads to
end the incessant forays into technical matters of the national team because
such conflict with Stephen Keshi’s job as
head coach but focus energy on administrative matters that would ensure
that Nigeria makes a
formidable campaign in the world Cup in Brazil. “we have picked a ticket to
the world cup and that is only one leg of the campaign. I think that NFF should
work out measures to guide, complement Keshi’s effort and they can begin by starting
early to plan how to execute the rest of the campaign and I would remind them
that it includes paying the backlog of salaries, bonuses and allowance of the coaches
they owe, pay attention to the players welfare such that we don’t allow the
tournament to start before discussing or fixing what allowances they can earn in
the competition. More than that, they NFF should leave Keshi and his assistants
to handle technical matters. I
have observed that some of their actions and utterances are diversionary. So
they can maintain advisory and supervisory roles over him and the team,” he
said.
Adebiyi, who was also technical committee chairman of the
FA, stressed the need for NFF arrange for the Eagles to play friendly matches
between now and June next year. “Experience tell that Eagles should be made to
play matches involving both tough teams and weak teams. It will make no sense
if they ply against tough teams during this preparation time and in the world
cup proper be beaten by any so-called weak teams. By this, I mean since we are
meeting a team Iran that is believed to be weak in the group stage, it will be good
to have another game against Jordan or any country in that class as a means be
ready for avoid getting a surprise by any other during the competition, “ he
added.
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