Julius Berger To Resuscitate Abuja Stadium Pitch

Construction giants Julius Berger, has offered to resuscitate the playing turf of the National Stadium, Abuja ahead of the crucial 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifying match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Guinea’s Syli Stars on October 8.

Speaking during a visit by top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation last week, the Managing Director of Julius Berger, Mr Wolfgang Goetsch, said his company was committed to bringing the pitch back to life for the sake of the Super Eagles and the Nigeria Football Federation.

“We are ready to work on the pitch to ensure that the Super Eagles have a good surface to train and play a good match, and also because we like the efforts that the present Nigeria Football Federation NFF administration is putting in order to ensure that Nigeria is up there among the best football-playing nations of the world,” Goetsch said.

The construction company has already started the preliminary work and expect to finish work before the Super Eagles commence their training sessions for the big match on October 3.

Julius Berger built the Abuja Stadium and were in charge of maintaining the facility, but were forced to withdraw their services due to unpaid debts of N5million from the National Sports Commission.