The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has condemned, in very strong terms, a report in some media outlets including America’s Cable News Network (CNN) that it cannot fly the Super Eagles to a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Ndola on Sunday, 9th October 2016.
Nigeria’s football –governing body
viewed the report as baseless, misleading and despicable, not only
against Nigerian football, but against the Nigerian nation.
The NFF insisted that the report was the
concoction of an idle mind and challenged the purveyors of the
falsehood to name their source.
On Thursday, the NFF assured Nigerians
that it had concluded arrangements on getting players and officials of
the Super Eagles to Abuja for a training camp starting on Sunday, 2nd
October, getting the team to and from Zambia and getting the players
back to their various clubs after the national assignment.
The body called for the support and
prayers of Nigerians at this time, and urged that the players be allowed
to focus on the big task of qualifying the nation to the 2018 FIFA
World Cup, without so much negative stories and insinuations.
The NFF noted that, over the past few
months, some persons have made it their business to fabricate unhealthy
stories about the NFF and Nigerian football. It called on all
stakeholders to disregard, henceforth, any report about the NFF that did
not emanate from the NFF Communications Department.
While admitting financial challenges as a
result of the current state of the economy, the NFF expressed solid
faith that matters would never get to the point of Nigeria being unable
to get its National Team to the venue of a competitive match or
championship.
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