The truth FIFA must be told, by Patrick Omorodion
Despite shouting autonomy, it still depends on the government for survival and thus goes to Abuja as Nigeria Football Association, NFA, known to Nigerian law to collect money but goes to FIFA as the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, operating under stat- utes accepted by the international football system.
They are not coming because they heard of any ‘crisis’ but because the Nigerian government through the National Sports Commission, NSC, which oversees the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF went to them to brief them about the reason for the reform Nigerians are demanding for football administration.
He believes that those who have hijacked football are “the political jobbers, the delegate counters, the committee regu- lars, the hustlers who have never built a club nor discovered a player, maintained a pitch, or risked their own money in the game, but know how to enter the room where football offices are shared.
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