Fashanu Berates NFF Over Grassroots Programme

A member of the Presidential Task Force for the 2010 World Cup, John Fashanu has berated the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), over her insensitivity towards the development of grassroots football in the country.

Fashanu, who made this known in a Radio programme remarked that NFF has not done enough to assist in searching for potential young footballers for the country from the grassroots.

According to him, there are many young players at the grassroots that can make the Super Eagles team in the nearest future, except that NFF has not deemed it important to hunt for them.

“As an ex-international, I was discovered in England when I was young, playing at the grassroot level. Infact, if there were no grassroots football programme in England, nobody would have discovered a player like me, he said.

He, however, urged the NFF to be more up and doing in setting up academics throughout the country, so that, it could be used for the discovering of young and budding talents who will take over from the ageing ones in Eagles team presently.

He continued that there is no gainsaying that the NFF, will be getting it wrong if they fail to develop grassroots football because this is where the future of Nigerian football lies’, he noted.