Minister of Sports, Solomon Dalung, has asked the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to clarify how it burned through $500,000 on the Super Eagles’ international friendly against Senegal.
As indicated by a local website, the NFF secured the cash from backers and some portion of it should be utilized to pay players’ appearance expense for the match that finished 1-1 in London.
The organization purportedly spent all the cash on the accomodation, feeding and return tickets for a portion of the players, and, hence, has not possessed the capacity to pay the players their appearance fee of $2,000 each.
The sports minister supposedly got inspired by the issue when the NFF spoke to it to discharge its month to month allocation, saying it expects to utilize it to settle the players’ appearance fee. Dalung says he would just discharge the allocation when NFF clarifies how it spent the $500,000.
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Then, Leicester City star, Ahmed Musa, who ventured down as Super Eagles’ vice captain before the international friendly against Senegal a week ago, may have played his last match for the Super Eeagles.
Musa chose to venture down as the vice captain before the match when Coach Gernot Rohr informed him that Ogenyi Onazi would lead the team against Senegal without Skipper John Obi Mikel.
The choice, as per reports, enraged Musa, who called other players behind the coach to let them know of his choice to venture down as vice captain before telling the manager of his choice.
Owngoalnigeria.com, which covered the Super Eagles in London, reports that the Leicester City star may have played his last game for the Super Eagles subsequent to asking for to leave the team’s camp before the game against Senegal.
As per the report,”Something is certainly wrong with Musa and Rohr. The way he cleared out the camp on the grounds of family issues as asserted by Rohr is not valid in at any rate. He doesn’t appear to be content with the mentor in the wake of losing the bad habit.
“Musa didn’t challenge Rohr openly but his reaction says it all. You know the Super Eagles coach is a very experienced man, so he is trying to play it down but I doubt if Musa will be called up for future games.”
