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S’Eagles: NFF Boss Laments Lack Of Love, Discipline
Super Eagles player (12) trying to shoot past a Chadian defender in a 2017 AFCON Qualifier played in Kaduna, two weeks ago
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has revealed that there are cliques in the Super Eagles, that the players are not friends and lack discipline.
Pinnick touched on a wide-range of issues on a television programme on Monday morning.
“I noticed that the players are not friends, there are various cliques and all of these stuff,” revealed Pinnick.
“They should love themselves.
“There is a level of indiscipline and this impacts negatively on the performance of the team.”
He also spoke on the latest cases of indiscipline involving skipper Vincent Enyeama and Ogenyi Onazi, insisting that nobody is bigger than Nigeria.
Onazi was fined $5,000 for his sending off against Chad in an AFCON qualifier while Enyeama questioned the safety of Kaduna for the match.
“Will you do that at your club?” he asked about the needless red card Onazi bagged.
“Enyeama made careless and provocative statements about Kaduna and we felt very bad about it. It cost us as it heightened the security situation in Kaduna.”
He said the executive committee will soon take a decision on the Flying Eagles and the Super Falcons after they crashed out of their various World Cups this month.