In Three Years Nigeria Football Will Be Worse

Nigeria football will be worse in three years

Enyimba FC Technical  Adviser, Kadiri Ikhana has bemoaned football administrators in the country for their non-challant attitude towards players’ welfare.
The former African best coach stated this in an interview with SportingLife after examined the abject poverty the Nigerian players had been subjected to due to their unpaid wages by their respective clubs.
Majority of the clubs in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) are still owing  players their entitlements.
The former Kano Pillars gaffer expressed fear that the state of football in the country would be worse in the next three years if the administrators fail to respond to players’ yearnings.
“The country administrators must take players’ welfare very seriously. The country must ensure that the players dues are been paid as at when due. Owing players salaries is not a good thing and it is not encouraging,” the former Kwara United coach voiced.
“Players used all their energy to get results and at the end of the day they are still running after administrators and labour to get their hard-earned money. The players’ welfare should be look at and if the country fails to take player’s welfare as priority the result in the next three years will be worse.”
Kaduna United owed its players to the tune of fifteen month salaries last season. The likes of Dolphins FC, Sharks FC of Port-Harcourt, Bayelsa United, El Kanemi Warriors as well as Akwa United carried placards to the State Government houses to demand for their money.
It took the urgent intervention of the Akwa Ibom state governor Godswill Akpabio who released the sum of N200million naira to offset Akwa United’s players’ bill after their protest to his office.