NFF Looking For Funds For National Teams

 

Nigeria's quest to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia is seriously threatened by the paucity of funds to prosecute the Super Eagles qualifying matches by the Nigeria Football Federation.  The country might even withdraw from the women' s Under-20 and Under-17 World Cup tournaments in Jordan next month and Papua New Guinea later in the year if there is no improvement in the financial situation in the football ruling body.

Reports has it that the NFF, sensing the dangers of not being able to send the two teams to the FIFA World Cups for the two age-grade women teams and the effect of not being able to execute Super Eagles qualifiers adequately may have on the nation's football, have written  for intervention by the federal government 

An NFF source said “It is true that we have written to the federal government through the minister of youth and sports to intervene and bail us of the financial difficulties we are going through. The situation is so bad that we doubt if our junior women's teams will be able to attend the two FIFA World Cup championships that they have qualified for this year. Our dear Super Eagles are also in danger of not qualifying for the 2018 World Cup in Russia if the fund paucity persists. You cannot believe it that if not for NFF president Amaju Pinnick who stood as guarantor with a bank, we might not have been able to raise flight tickets for Super Eagles players for the game against Tanzania on Saturday. It is so bad that only government can bail us.”