Augustine Eguavoen, the technical director of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has expressed concern with the timing of the strike embarked upon by Super Eagles players, reports Completesports.com.
The players boycotted training on Tuesday to demand the payment of their outstanding bonuses and allowances.
They however returned to training at the Institut Royal de Formation Des Cadres in Salé, outside Rabat on Wednesday night after the issue was put to bed.
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Despite queering the timing of the pay dispute, Eguavoen is confidence they will get the job done on the playoffs.
“These boys that I know, that I have worked with, want to go to the FIFA World Cup. The aspiration of every professional footballer is to play at the World Cup and enhance their market value,” Eguavoen told the nff.com.
“The timing of the strike was wrong. They might have had their reasons but the timing was not the best. Having said that, I have faith in them to rise up to the occasion and do the business on Thursday, and afterwards, on Sunday.”
The Super Eagles will confront the Panthers of Gabon in the semi-final of the playoffs in Rabat on Thursday (today). Kick-off is 5pm Nigeria time.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Honestly the timing was wrong!
If na me be nff I go lock up…
Cos I mean FIFA world cup that can open doors for you or even more doors?..
Na him dey wan jonze with?
But I trust nff maybe them just give them empty promise to resolve the situation…. Cos they know every player is desperate to participate in the world cup…..trust me the issue will rise up again…
EQUOAVOEN SHOULD LEAVE THIS PLAYERS TO FIGHT FOR THE MONEY MANAGEMENT OWED THEM (despite it has been granted by FG, CAF & FIFA) WITHOUT ANY FURTHER DELAY
SENATORS, HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY MEMBERS SITTING ALLOWANCES WERE DULLY PAID WITHOUT DELAY .
EQUAVOEN SHOULD HAVE CASTIGATED MANAGEMENT MASSIVELY FOR DELAYING THE PAYMENT WHEN CRUCIAL MATCHES IS AROUND THE CORNER.
### TINUBU, CAF, & FIFA SHOULD INTERVENE ON THIS MATTER WHAT CAUSE DELAY IN PAYMENT SINCE 2019. BECAUSE THE MONEY HAS BEEN GRANTED BY FG, CAF & FIFA.,
Right again, sister woman Juliet. You nailed it.
Mr man you gat no integrity otherwise you shd cover ur face with ur both hands. Shiooo.
Why not protest before Afcon? Why una sef quiet since 2019..World cup play off u qualified by luck u dey use am play lol….Ekong u are done after these play offs…You are not a reasonable leader. Thr timing is bad.
I know Ekong started this shit….He is being benched and he knows he might be out of the team soon. Na why guy wan collect im money incase we no qualifiy
The arrogance to think u can skip one day of training while the other team is working hard…Not to talk about late arrivals so they had 1 and half training out of 3 days.. man
Gabon is not Benin or Lesotho….
They had 21 points and were hard done by the Eritrea bs…So these players will have themselves to blame if anything happens. There were several instances where they could have staged a protest but naaaaa u wait till a play off where even teams with 20 points didn’t qualify
The timing is very bad and whoever is down to argue should go argue with possums in the bush.