Author: Chidozie Okoroji
Former Queen of the tracks and special adviser to the minister of sports, Mary Onyali Omagbemi has called on the sports ministry to ensure they adequately make sure the camp and take good care of athletes so that they can attain a podium finish in Tokyo next year.
Former Super Eagles defender Benedict Iroha has tasked the NFF to engage more players like himself as well as his colleague from that set to make the country’s football better.
As the country’s athletes look ahead to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, 1996 Atlanta gold medalist, Chioma Ajunwa Opara has submitted that there should be various factors to be put in place in order to help athletes do well at the Games such as the right kind of training as well as having a formidable teammate to help with evaluation.
The Honourable Minister for Sports, Mr Sunday Dare has come out to shed more light in the advisory committee setup ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo next year, revealing that within the next couple of weeks, they should come up with the camping sites for the various qualified athletes, as Nigeria will be participating in just 11 sporting events.
Former Super Eagles coach and ex-international, Christian Chukwu has submitted that our current crop of players have not matured enough to win the CAF African footballer of the year award, with only Odion Ighalo in the final list of 10 nominees after scoring 5 goals in the AFCON earlier this year in Egypt.
Lobi Stars striker, Sikiru Alimi has submitted that he and his teammates just want to keep gathering the points as its too early to say who will win and qualify for continental engagements.
General manager of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Emeka Ighilo has revealed that the federation has done quite a lot for the team who started preparation in Abuja but are now in Lagos fine-tuning and perfecting strategies ahead of the tournament next month.
Veteran soccer coach and former Dream Team assistant manager, Fatai Folorunsho Amoo has called on the FF to try as much as possible to empower Nigerian coaches who can go around the match venues in the country and discover players for our various national teams.
Former Super Eagles player and ex-international, Friday Ekpo has come out with a damming verdict that the NPFL is not encouraging, especially for the players, which is why they are always in a hurry to want to move abroad, as even the respective clubs don’t pay their players regularly.
Super Eagles team coordinator Patrick Pascal has submitted that he strongly believes the Super Eagles players like Samuel Chukwueze and Victor Oshimen will rule the world in the next couple of years as the most important thing is that the players are improving very fast.
