Former Super Eagles’ captain, Sunday Oliseh, has passed a vote of no confidence on Nigeria’s football administration with a damning verdict that the game is nearing its death in the country.
Speaking to sports radio station, Brila FM, on Wednesday, the former Juventus and Borussia Dortmund midfielder, picked holes in the structure of the development of the game in Nigeria.
Oliseh, who recently graduated with a Uefa pro-coaching licence, proffered that the main route to rebuilding Nigerian football rests on developing the domestic league.
He pointed out that the league remains the major channel to the success of any football-playing country in the world. “Nigerian football is dying,” began the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations winner. “It is a painful situation but seriously we cannot progress as a footballing nation without putting our league in the proper position.”
Oliseh added that the poor state of Nigeria’s football coupled with struggling performances by the Eagles has affected the movement of players from the West African nation during transfer windows across the globe. “Our players are no longer attractive as the case was in the recent past whenever the transfer window comes around. It is simple because the national team hasn’t done in recent international championship,” he said.
It is apparent that the ex-Nigeria international had in mind the fact that he and his colleagues were the last set of Super Eagles’ players to win the African title 17 years ago.
The Nigerian men’s national team last played in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations in 2000 when they lost via penalties to their Cameroonian counterparts in Lagos.
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