Former worldwide, Sam Sodje has admonished the Nigerian Soccer Federation (NFF) and different sports activities stakeholders to place up their considering caps to completely put together the Tremendous Eagles for the upcoming 2026 World Cup qualifiers.
Talking with The Guardian in Oleh, an agrarian group in Isoko South native authorities space of Delta State, Sodje stated his admonition was because of not -too -impressive efficiency of the Tremendous Eagles, recently.
The ex Tremendous Eagles participant stated he was nonetheless nursing the pains from the 2-1 house defeat of the Tremendous Eagles by Rwanda, lamenting that the Nigerian gamers weren’t positioning themselves to win the sport.
Whereas bemoaning the Lukewarm perspective of the gamers in relation to taking part in for Nigeria, he suggested them to see the significance of the sport and begin making use of themselves to it to convey honour to themselves and the nation.
“We have been lacking some artistic gamers. I feel for now we’re not good to go; as a result of the gamers should not doing themselves justice. They aren’t making use of themselves effectively after they come to play for Nigeria.
“If we begin taking part in the way in which we’re taking part in now, we’re going nowhere, we’re going to proceed to battle, so we now have to return to the drafting board and ensure we do the needful in any other case we’re progressing in error, which after all, it is not going to be effectively with us once we meet some massive groups”.
Following this improvement, Sam Sodje then cautioned the NFF to get up from sleep and face actuality now to keep away from additional defeats
“We’ve to return to the technical aspect of NFF, to do issues proper, and if we don’t get it correctly now, I’m afraid, we’ll even not get it proper within the worldwide video games”, he emphasised.
The ex worldwide footballer additionally suggested the NFF to beam it search mild on the Tremendous Eagles coach, Austin Eguaveon, saying in the mean time his consequence will not be trying good, so NFF has to look into it and ensure they do the correct issues”.
