A former Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and proprietor of Gabros International FC, Chief Gabriel Chukwuma has blasted the echelons of the nation’s football led by Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau for bringing Nigeria football into a comatose state.
A visibly irked Chief Chukwuma told our correspondent yesterday that with few days to a crucial 2025 AFCON qualifying match involving the Super Eagles against Rwanda and Benin Republic, the NFF is yet to engage a sustainable world class manager for the Super Eagles to prosecute the remaining matches.
“This reminds me of my position ab initio that Gusau has no business in the federation. Look at how our football teams have failed woefully, the latest being the Super Falcons at the Paris Olympics, losing all their group matches and failing to qualify for the second round.”
“Again, I hear he’s trying to engage one of the minnows from Sweden, Janne Anderson, a coach who couldn’t qualify Sweden for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and Euro 2024 Championship in Germany. Please can somebody tell me what he’s coming to do in the Super Eagles, to dance ‘Gwo Gwo Gwo Gwom music‘ or what?”
“As if that is not enough, another local coach who bungled our chances of progression in a previous Nations’ Cup is being drafted to stand in for him. This goes to show that ab initio Gusau and his co-travellers had planned to fail Nigerians with their “planless agenda.”
“In short, my take is that Nigerian football fans should forget the next FIFA World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico and focus on the one that will take place four years after. This is because with lack of focus and plan associated with Gusau and his men, I don’t see Nigeria winning their remaining matches with all these road side coaches being engaged.
Chief Chukwuma concluded that “I also advise the federal government not to continue to spend money on the on going campaigns to be in the next World Cup, because it is very clear that our chances have been bungled by Gusau’s NFF. Rather enough money should be saved for the preparation of the 2030 World Cup which should start now,” he concluded.