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Video: Angry Adesanya confronts Du Plessis

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Video: Angry Adesanya confronts Du Plessis

In a face-to-face verbal spat with ‘my African brother’ in the cage at UFC 290

 

Video: Angry Israel Adesanya confronts ‘my African brother’ Dricus Du Plessis in the cage at UFC 290

 

UFC 290 saw Dricus Du Plessis wow fans with his stoppage over Robert Whittaker. Then Israel Adesanya stepped in the cage, Stephie Haynes reports for Bloody Elbow.

 

 

Dricus Du Plessis just scored a second-round finish of Robert Whittaker at UFC 290 to become the next man reigning champion Israel Adesanya faces next. The UFC wasted no time in getting Izzy into the cage with Du Plessis where the two jawed back and forth with Adesanya commandeering the microphone.

 

When Joe Rogan introduced Izzy as “the great Israel Adesanya,” Du Plessis took exception to the comment saying, “I don’t know about great.” That seemingly innocuous comment unleashed the showman in Adesanya, who got right down to brass tacks. He immediately shot at Du Plessis’ previous “real African”

 

“This is my African brother right here. Let’s go n—-.”

 

Dricus replied with, “You’re African, but you ain’t my brother.”

 

Adesanya quickly shot back, “Do a 36 & Me test and it will say I’m Nigerian. Do a 26 & Me test and it’ll show you where you’re from. I’ll show you where you’re from.”

 

 

It should be noted that the DNA test Adesanya is referencing is 23 & Me. If the UFC was going for a sizzle reel to amp up this fight, Izzy cut one helluva promo. Dricus Du Plessis might have fire and brimstone in his hands but he’s running on empty when it comes to trash talk. Adesanya was not allowing him to get a single word uttered without 3 stingers being hurled his way before he could even breathe. The lead-up to this fight should be quite interesting, to say the least.

 

UFC 290 saw Dricus Du Plessis and Israel Adesanya in the cage together

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UFC 290 quick results

Main card

  • Alexander Volkanovski vs. Yair Rodriguez: Featherweight Title Unification
  • Brandon Moreno vs. Alexandre Pantoja: Flyweight Title
  • Dricus Du Plessis def. Robert Whittaker by TKO at 2:23 of round 2: Middleweight
  • Dan Hooker def. Jalin Turner by Split-Decision (29-28×2, 28-29): Lightweight
  • Bo Nickal def. Val Woodburn by TKO at :38 of round 1: Middleweight

Prelims

  • Robbie Lawler def. Niko Price by KO at :38 of round 1: Welterweight
  • Tatsuro Taira def. Edgar Cháirez by unanimous decision (29-27 x3): 130-pounds
  • Denise Gomes def. Yazmin Jauregui by KO at :20 of round 1: Strawweight
  • Alonzo Menifield def. Jimmy Crute by submission (guillotine) at 1:55 of round 2: Light Heavyweight

Early prelims

  • Vitor Petrino def. Marcin Prachnio by submission (arm triangle) at 3:42 of round 3: Lightweight
  • Cameron Saaiman def. Terrence Mitchell by TKO at 3:10 of round 1: Bantamweight
  • Jesus Aguilar def. Shannon Ross by KO at :17 of round 1: Flyweight
  • Esteban Ribovics def. Kamuela Kirk by unanimous decision (29-28 x3): Lightweight

Agara appointed league board chairman

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Agara appointed league board chairman

George Aluo and Nkechi Obi will also head leagues’ boards

 

Sports journalist, George Aluo, marketing expert, Nkechi Obi head Leagues' boards - Sports Village Square

 

By Rasheed Adewuyi

 

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A former deputy governor of Nasarawa State, His Excellency Silas Agara has been appointed as Chairman of the Nigeria Nation-Wide League One, which has been reconstituted along with the boards of the Nigeria National League and the Nigeria Women Football League.

 

Agara will have Mr. Adeoye Adepeju as his vice, with Mallam Sabo Muhammed Dutse, Mr. Ogheneochuko Ambakaderemo, Mr. Tunji Onatolu, Barr. Bucknor Akintade, and Mallam Danladi Ibrahim, as members. Mallam Hassan Abdullahi Garo will be the chief executive officer of the board.

 

Mr. George Aluo is the new Chairman of the Nigeria National League, with Hon. Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki as his vice. Mr. Yakubu Sarma, Mallam Sani Mohammed, Dr. Donald Ikpe, Chief Joseph Uzoma Ebowusim, and Chief Dotun Sanusi, will serve as members, while Mr. Emmanuel Attah will be the chief executive officer.

 

Renowned marketing expert Nkechi Nneka Obi will head the Nigeria Women Football League, with Hajiya Hussaina Suleman as vice chairman. Alhaja Rukayat Lola Alaya, former FIFA referee Hadiza Musa, Mr. Ayodele Thomas, Ms. Henrietta Ehiobor and Mr. Danny Nazzal will be members.

 

The boards will be inaugurated once the President of NFF, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau returns to the country from continental assignments in Morocco and Cote d’Ivoire.  

 

AT A GLANCE:

 

NIGERIA NATIONAL LEAGUE: Mr. George Aluo (Chairman); Hon. Khamisu Ahmed Mailantarki (Vice Chairman); Mr. Yakubu Sarma (Member); Mallam Sani Mohammed (Member); Dr. Donald Ikpe (Member); Chief Joseph Uzoma Ebowusim (Member); Chief Dotun Sanusi (Member); Mr. Emmanuel Attah (CEO).

 

NIGERIA NATION-WIDE LEAGUE ONE: Hon. Silas Agara (Chairman); Mr. Adeoye Adepeju (Vice Chairman); Mallam Sabo Mohammed Dutse (Member); Mr. Ogheneochuko Ambakaderemo (Member); Mr. Tunji Onatolu (Member); Barr. Bucknor Akintade (Member); Mallam Danladi Ibrahim (Member); Mallam Hassan Abdullahi Garo (CEO).

 

NIGERIA WOMEN FOOTBALL LEAGUE:  Mrs Nkechi Nneka Obi (Chairman); Hajiya Hussaina Suleman (Vice Chairman); Alhaja Rukayat Lola Alaya (Member); FIFA Hadiza Musa (Member); Mr. Ayodele Thomas (Member); Ms. Henrietta Ehiobor (Member); Mr. Danny Nazzal (Member).

NFF pays tribute to Titus Davis Okere

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NFF pays tribute to Titus Davis Okere

The ‘last of the firsts’ passes on

 

The Hamlet Historian: The Famed UK Tourists of NigeriaLate Titus Okere

 

By Rasheed Adewuyi

 

The Nigeria Football Federation has paid tribute to the last member of the pioneering UK Tourists to pass away, Titus Davis Okere, whose remains were interred at Bluebell Hill Crematorium in Kent, United Kingdom a few days ago.

 

Okere, a dazzling left winger, was the last surviving member of the first-ever Nigeria National Football Team, which travelled to the United Kingdom in 1949 to play nine friendly matches, out of which it won two, drew two and lost five.

 

NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi, said: “The Nigeria Football Federation mourns the passing of Titus Davis Okere. As a member of the UK Tourists, who played with bare feet yet showed great spirit in the nine matches they played. He was a pioneer Football Ambassador of our great nation.

 

“Even though we did not watch him play, we read accounts of his exceptional skills and hard work on the pitch for the country and for the English clubs he played for – Swindon Town FC and Chippenham United. We pray that Almighty God will grant him eternal rest and grant his family and close ones the fortitude to bear the loss.”

 

Swindon Town FC, for which Okere played 70 years ago, did a moving tribute to the departed player. His contract with Swindon Town in February 1953 made him the first Nigeria footballer to sign a professional contract.

 

The UK Tourists arrived in England on 29 August 1949. On arrival, an Englishman, John Finch was attached to them as coach. They played barefooted and won two, drew two and lost five of their matches against Marine Cosby, Bishop Auckland, Leystone FC, Isthmian League XI, Corinthians League XI, Dulwich Hamlet, South Liverpool, Bromley and Athenian League XI. 

 

Nigeria boxers fail Olympics trial

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Nigeria boxers fail Olympics trial

No single Nigerian boxer will feature at Paris 2024 in France

 

How poor economy, politics, football, destroyed boxing in Nigeria | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News — Sport — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News

 

Ed Emeanua

 

Nigeria will fail to participate in the boxing event at the Paris 2024 Olympics games after failing to qualify a single boxer, be it male or female, for the games next year.

 

Nigeria also failed to send any boxer to the 2020 Olympics, also over failure to qualify a single boxer for the Tokyo Olympics.

 

This is the second time that Nigeria will fail to send boxers to the Olympics since the nation began participating in the Games in 1952 except the 1976 Summer Olympics which it boycotted.

 

Nigerian athletes have managed to win a total of 27 medals, mostly in athletics and boxing against all odds, not for lack of talent, but mostly because of the poor manpower sequala of lack lustered management that has been bedeviling the ‘most populous Black Nation’ on the planet.

 

The Nigeria Olympics Committee was established in 1951 and the country persisted without winning a single Olympics medal to show for its endless participation at subsequent events until the 1964 version of the Games in Tokyo, Japan, when Nojim Maiyegun won the bronze medal in the Men’s light middleweight category.

 

Eight years on, another boxer-Isaac Ikhouria- won for Nigeria, her second Olympics medal when he beat out another bronze medal in the Men’s light heavyweight class of the 1972 Munich Games.

 

Nigeria suffered a twelve-year lapse on the medal rostrum before Peter Konyegwachie-another boxer-came to the rescue by winning Nigeria’s first Olympics silver medal through his sensational effort in the Men’s featherweight event at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.

 

Also at that Games, Nigeria’s Men’s 4×400 meter relay team won the bronze medal of their event, to herald the entrance of Athletics as a major Olympics sport for the country.

 

Nigeria’s Men’s 4×400 meter relay team at the Los Angeles Games in 1984 that accomplished that feat featured Sunday Uti, Moses Ugbisie, Rotimi Peters, and Innocent Egbunike.

 

At the Barcelona Games in 1992, boxing and athletics rivalled each other to gain the edge. Olapade Adeniken, Davidson Ezinwa, Chidi Imoh, Oluyemi Kayode, and Osmond Ezinwa, won the silver medal in the Men’s 4×100 meter relay event.

 

David Izonritei then boxed out a silver medal of his own in the Men’s heavyweight class to rival athletics at that Games, which was then immediately upgraded by Richard Igbineghu’s exploits via winning another boxing silver medal this time in the Men’s super heavyweight class at Barcelona 1992.

 

Another bronze medal feat by Nigeria’s Women’s 4×100 meter athletics relay team featuring Beatrice Utondu, Christy Opara Thompson, Mary Onyali, and Faith Idehen, wrapped up Nigeria’s medals exploit at Barcelona 1992.

 

The nation eventually won her first and second gold medals, all at the 1996 Olympics games in Atlanta, USA through the exploits of Chioma Ajunwa in the Women’s long jump event in athletics, and in the Men’s football competition.

 

The Nigeria football team to the Atlanta Olympics Games consisted of Daniel Amokachi, Emmanuel Amuneke, Tijani Babangida, Celestine Babayaro, Emmanuel Babayaro, Teslim Fatusi, Victor Ikpeba, Dosu Joseph, Nwankwo Kanu, Garba Lawal, Abiodun Obafemi, and Kingsley Obiekwu.

 

Others in that team include, Uche Okechukwu, Jay-Jay Okocha, Sunday Oliseh, Mobi Oparaku, Wilson Oruma, and Taribo West.

Olabisi Afolabi, Fatima Yusuf, Charity Opara, and Falilat Ogunkoya also won silver in the Women’s 4×400 meter relay with the pair of Mary Onyali and Falilat Ogunkoya each winning a bronze in the Women’s 200 meters and Women’s 400 meters events respectively, all through athletics in the Atlanta Olympics of 1996.

 

Duncan Dokiwari’s bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics games of 1996 in the Men’s super heavyweight category was the last time a Nigerin won a boxing medal at the Olympics games.

 

NBF failed Jeremiah Okorodudu

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NBF failed Jeremiah Okorodudu

Boxing federation accused by stakeholder of trying to pass its responsibilities to save its ailing boxer before his untimely death to others

 

jeremiah-okorodudu News — Latest On Jeremiah Okorodudu — — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News

 

By Ed Emeanua

 

Former Nigerian Olympic boxer, Jeremiah Okorodudu could still be alive today had his home federation-the Nigeria Boxing Federation (NBF)- rushed first to his rescue as he laid helplessly on his sick bed in the hospital dying, instead of waiting for others to take the initiative.

 

Rather than come to the fighter’s aid, the NBF has been accused for subtly trying to push on its responsibility to come to Okorodudu’s aid to save his life to the Sports Ministry and the Nigeria Olympics Committee.

 

The fighter ultimately succumbed in his battle against the scourge of foot cancer few weeks ago, as urgent financial support needed to pay for his medical bills for a planned amputation of the affected lower extremity failed to arrive on time.

 

This was the contention of a major stakeholder, who accuses the NBF for failing to rush first to cater for the urgent needs of one of its own, before expecting others to follow, knowing fully well the slow and tedious process that is involved in getting ministerial aid ,and in activating other channels of assistance in this type of emergent situation.

 

Publicity officer of the NOC, Tony Nezianya, has lambasted the NBF for trying to pass down its responsibilities to the NOC as the boxer pleaded for urgent help to pay his medical bills before it was too late.

 

“Rather than immediately going to the rescue of Jeremiah Okorodudu, his federation were telling everyone that it was the responsibility of the NOC and Sports Ministry to take care of their former employee,” Nezianya fumed.

 

“The NOC and the Sports Ministry did not even know what was going on, but the people at the NBF knew that Okorodudu was ailing well ahead of time and kept quiet. When it was almost too late to do anything to save his life, they then started to say the NOC and the ministry are responsible for saving him.

 

“It was even the little that we (NOC) were able to do, like rallying other stakeholders around, after we knew what was going on, that allowed Okorodudu to last this long. His federation who should have rushed down timely and urgent aid to him to save his life failed to do so, but chose to wait for others to act first. This is wrong”

 

Nezianya questioned the rationale behind the NBF’s expectation that the financial responsibility of footing Okorodudu’s medical bills would be borne by the NOC, when all the sports federations, including the NBF, refuse to allow the nation’s Olympic committee the access to use the image rights of their athletes for its major promotions until two weeks to the competitions.

 

“The various sports federations have warned us against using their athletes’ image for our promotional efforts to raise finance for our programme and events until two weeks before the competition in question when it is no longer feasible to benefit from them,” Nezianya complained.

 

“When also it is the same companies that our marketers and that of these federations would go to seek adverts from, what can we do within only two weeks to raise money to carryout our plans or to assist them financially?

 

Yet, these federations expect us to move mountains for them with our bare hands. That is preposterous. You know it is very impossible for that to be done.”

 

Nezianya believes Okorodudu could be alive today had his home federation acted earnestly and as soon as possible, and then wait for other stakeholders to chip in later.

 

It would be recalled that the late Okorodudu was a former national assistant boxing coach in the employment of the boxing federation aside from representing Nigeria both at the World, Olympics, and commonwealth boxing levels on the platform of the Nigeria Amateur Boxing Association (NABA) now known today as NBF.

 

 

Osimhen’s cost could rise to €200m

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Osimhen’s cost could rise to €200m

Napoli set to insert new hefty release clause in Victor Osimhen’s new contract

 

Victor Osimhen next club odds: Chelsea now 2/1 ahead of Man United for Napoli star | talkSPORT

 

By Ed Emeanua

 

Napoli’s asking price for their sensational forward, Victor Osimhen, could rise as high as €200 million.

 

That could be what new suitors desirous of the striker’s services would be asked to cough up to make the transfer of Napoli’s star forward possible.

 

Napoli are set to insert a release clause in the forward’s contract as they complete move to extend Osimhen’s new deal by another year.

 

According to Sky Italia, club and player have already held another discussion concerning Osimhen’s contract renewal where the star forward’s agent, Roberto Calenda made known Osimhen’s intentions to remain with Napoli, with all concerned now agreeing on extending the player’s stay in Naples the minimum of one more term.

 

There remains several gray areas to be iron out between player and club, but Napoli hard pressed to lose Osimhen on the heel of the departures of Cristiano Guintoli, Luciano Spalletti as well as Kim Min-Jae. Osimhen’s representative is hard done by the fact that they in turn can’t demand for an emolument that is way beyond what the club can match.

A common ground solution could be for Napoli to come close to meeting Osimhen’s €7 million wage demand in exchange for adding a release clause of close to €200 million in his new contract.

 

Also, joint image consents could bring both parties to a common ground. Work is now in advance stages for club and player to close ranks on deal soon.

Victor Osimhen: From landfill slum to superstardom

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Victor Osimhen: From landfill slum to superstardom

Napoli’s man of the moment returns to what constitutes his personal flotsam and jetsam world

 

Thankful" Victor Osimhen Shows Off The Interior Of His Exotic Mercedes Sprinter Interior

 

By Ed Emeanua

 

Victor Osimhen returned to his former Olusosun neighborhood-a renown landfill slum-a few weeks ago and to the nostalgia of a boy who grew up in a famous favela in Lagos, Nigeria, now to the awakening of a man who now ploughs through the opulence of the affluence Avenues of this world without bother.

 

Most would readily choose to bury the nostalgia of the foul smelling neighborhood that continues to be a blight against their recollection of their beginning; a memory that is best to be shoved into the archives of infamy and left there to rot.

 

Not the highflying Napoli forward though. Osimhen has rather chosen to return to the stench of his noble beginning and his personal irony of what would without debate be construed the flotsam and jetsam past for many.

 

All the same, the Lagos favela where Osimhen’s origin took its roots, in reciprocation opened its arms of welcome to the form it has helped to mold into a god-like image in far away Naples, Italy.

 

In this nostalgic reawakening of a star and his neighborhood of upbringing, Osimhen and Olusosun favela both recognize the bond that has strengthened such a very palpable overflowing of love from a welcoming and appreciative community to one of their own, now a man of high repute and recognition.

 

For Osimhen, as the now renown star that he is, could have easily chosen to forgot his harrowing past, but has rather opted to return to the place of his highly noble beginning.

 

Osimhen’s return to Olusosun demonstrates his decision to pay respect with total humility and recognition for his nobility. In this tough favela south-side of the former Nigerian capital that is more famous for its gigantic landfill and stench, Osimhen’s aim was to reunite with his childhood friends and pay a visit to the school kids now attending the elementary school where he began his own embryonic education.

 

 

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Each turn for the Napoli forward in this hood of nostalgic proportions for the Napoli star forward was greeted by an adoring crowd of hundreds of people. Moved almost to the point of tears, Osimhen would later tweet:

 

“Returning to where my football dream and journey began in Olusosun gives me so much goosebumps. I am humbled and grateful for the roots that shaped my dreams.

 

“This is me once again appreciating their love and support and I will always cherish Olusosun and it’s people. Thank You!” 

 

Image of Osimhen’s reunion with his favela was almost akin to the throngs of appreciative fans in Naples that greeted Napoli’s Scudetto win after 33 years in waiting. The crowds of Napoli just as it is now with the faithful of Olusosun, welcomed the man who has brought the world’s attention to their nobility, identity, and pride to live and let live, with so much gratitude. 

 

 

Osimhen’s potentials are remarkable. The players passing detail of the game is exemplary, as he passes the ball roughly 13.00 times in the course of a game having a pass completion rate of 71.05%. The Napoli superstar equally makes 1.15 vital passes every game which ends up in outstanding goal scoring opportunities.

 

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Last season in Serie A, Osimhen scored s6 goals in 32 games notching also four assists that ended up in goals. He also score 6 times in the Napoli’s Champions League forays with another 5 goals assists to booth. The star has also garnered 17  goals in 25 Super Eagles appearances for Nigeria and is in line to eclipse Rashidi Yekini’s Nigeria’s 37 goals all time scoring record being aged just 24-years-old.

GAA unfurls primary school athletics tourney

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GAA unfurls primary school athletics tourney

Partners with GLEA, stakeholders for State’s firs athletics event for tertiary schools

 

No photo description available.Gara Gombe Ahmed Shuaibu 

 

By Rasheed Adewuyi

The Gombe State Athletics Association (GAA) in conjunction with the Gombe Local Education Authority (GLEA) is inviting the general public, parents, teachers and sports enthusiasts  to the first Gombe inter-primary schools athletics Championship.
The AthIetics carnival which holds at the  prestigious Pantami Stadium Start off from  Saturday July 8th, to July 9th,10th, 11th 2023 from 8am to 6pm daily.
According to the main organizing Committee, the Competition which had taken months to plan, has organized several Seminars for Coaches, NAATO officials, School Games-masters, Groundmen and the Media, and promises to be spectacular and worthy of its  expectant Spectators.
Apparently, anchored and sponsored by the Chairman of Gombe State AthIetics Association, Hon. Ahmed Shuaibu Gara Gombe, the competition has already attracted over 36 primary schools numbering over 1,100 pupils from all over the state.
The maiden Primary Schools AthIetics Championship is aimed at revolutionizing AthIetics in Gombe State among primary school kids up to secondary school students.
To this end, the 4-day Championship is aimed at warming the hearts of school Games masters, teachers, Parents and Gombe State Government towards encouraging their talented Children to opt for Sports to eke out  a living than divert their energy to unprofitable social vices.
However, Gombe AthIetics body the GAA, is also calling on sports philanthropists, businessmen, Parents and the private sector to assist in the sponsorship of the project.

NFF plans CAF Coaching Instructors’ Course

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NFF plans CAF Coaching Instructors’ Course

Abuja set to host inaugural continental football instructors’ course

 

Austin Eguavoen Accepts the Job of NFF Technical Director - To Earn N3million A Month - Cheer On Nigeria

 

By Rasheed Adewuyi

 

Arrangements have now been concluded for the organization of the inaugural CAF Coaching Instructors’ Course in Nigeria, which will hold at the NFF/FIFA Goal Project, MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja 5th – 15th July 2023.

 

The train-the-trainers programme has the approval of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), which is sending Ethiopian official Abrham Mebratu, a CAF elite instructor and FIFA technical expert, to conduct the course.

 

NFF’s Technical Director, Coach Augustine Eguavoen told thenff.com that a carefully-selected group of 15 coaches will benefit from this pacesetting programme, and this will then form the vanguard of the determined drive by the NFF to improve the lot of Nigerian coaches.

 

“This programme is with an objective towards enhancing the capacity of Nigerian coaches. There are changes to methods, tactics and techniques almost every day, and our coaches must be aware of these changes and be able to implement them to make our teams and clubs better, and be able to compete favorably internationally,” he said.

 

“I commend the efforts of the NFF leadership, particularly the President, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau for the initiative and resilience in ensuring the course becomes a reality.”

 

Participants will be taken through practical and theoretical sessions over the 10-day course.     

 

Dozens of young faces thrill Gusau

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Dozens of young faces thrill Gusau

NFF boss happy to see youngsters dominate attendance at referee training programme in Abuja

 

Gusau Excited By Preponderance Of Young Faces At Refereeing Courses | Sports247 NigeriaYoungsters dominate Referee courses in Abuja

 

By Rasheed Adewuyi

 

President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau on Tuesday expressed delight at seeing dozens of young faces during the opening ceremony of a three-pronged refereeing training programme in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

 

“I am very happy to see so many young faces here. Refereeing, like any activity that involves rigorous physical engagement and endurance, is about youthfulness.

 

The biggest problem we have been having in refereeing over the years has been the advanced age of our top referees, so I told the refereeing unit that we must change the template and concentrate on the young ones so that we can accomplish our objective of having our officials at the top end of the rung very soon,” Gusau said.

 

“From this very moment, I want to assure you that the NFF will no longer collect any money from any referee for development/training programme. That has stopped today.

 

“In spite of our limited resources, we will endeavor to organize these developmental programme every quarter in order to give our referees the best training possible. Our objective is to see them right at the top, and we will continue to support and encourage the work of our referees and the refereeing unit.”

 

Gusau recalled that at the onset of the new administration, he had insisted on an improved welfare package for referees, in order to dissuade them from unethical conducts.

 

“Our referees must be young, ethically upright and morally faultless to be able to compete favourably with the very best. We will do the best we can to raise a group of arbiters that will always do make country proud,” he added.

 

Leader of the FIFA instructors, Gladys Lengwe disclosed that the team has identified the crop of 115 participants as “young, vibrant and ambitious,” and capable of taking “refereeing in Nigeria to the next level.” She stated that the referees have acquitted themselves well in the fitness test, and look good to also impress in the technical programme.

 

The Women Referees’ Course is running concurrently with the Futsal Referees’ Course, to end on Thursday, with the Elite Men Referees’ Course to run from 9th to 15th of July.

 

Also at the opening ceremony were NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi; Permanent Secretary, Nasarawa State Ministry of Youth and Sports, Barr. Isaac Danladi; Members of the NFF Referees Committee; NFF Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire; NFF Director of Competitions, Ruth David and; Head of Member Associations, Ali Abubakar Muhammad.

 

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