The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has dismissed as nothing more than a storm in a team cup, a statement issued by the world body of professional footballers, FIFPRO on Tuesday calling on the Federation to pay players of the Super Falcons what they are owed.
The Federation reiterated that it had an earlier agreement with the players on what they would earn at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, but world football-governing body, FIFA came up with a new template that guaranteed more money for the players and which made players of all participating teams happier.
The NFF insisted it does need FIFPRO shouting from far off to pay Nigerian players what they had been promised by both FIFA and the NFF, dismissing the body’s statement as a mere relevance-seeking message.
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It recalled that its officials sat down and agreed with the players on what to pay them, but FIFA came up with a juicier package and they were all happy about it. If they had beaten England, for instance, and reached the quarter-finals, the NFF disclosed that the players would have been entitled to $90,000, and not the $60,000 each player will be getting now. A place in the semi-finals would have guaranteed at least $165,000 each (for 4th place, and $180,000 each for 3rd place) for the players.
The Federation praised the team for its efforts at reaching the Round of 16 and standing up firmly to world number four England on the turf, as well as its heroics in the group phase. It noted that not losing a single match out of four in regulation time is a remarkable record by an African team.
The nation’s football-governing body stated that it has no issues with the players; it had assured them before the World Cup that they would be paid the couple of friendly matches and qualifying matches for which they were being owed appearance fees and bonuses respectively. It pledged to pay the money once the World Cup money is paid.
The NFF also charged FIFPRO to stop playing the ostrich and stand up to its real responsibilities, calling on the body to address the real issues. The Federation revealed that after all these years, FIFPRO does not have an affiliate body in Nigeria. It challenged the body to come to Nigeria and set up an affiliate body that can always and legitimately speak on behalf of Nigerian players, and made up of individuals who understand the culture and dynamics of the African environment.
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NFF wey no get shame…..LMAOOo.
They should ask themselves why FIFPro has not written other countries…..why NFF….??
Because the stealing and thievery in the NFF over the years has attained Guiness World Records proportions.
The next thing we would have heard if there was no noise about this money is some strange stories about how a Snake in Eagle shadow danced around their office and one antelope that escaped from Yankari game reserve opened their safe and the money disappeared.
Abi wetin we never hear for that country before…?
E get where our matter never reach??
Both my head and heart are telling me that it is because of the perpetual Nigerian malaise that made FIFA go through the route of telling federations the amount due their playing personnel.
The NFF is like cancer that keeps destroying the soccer talent and image of Nigeria in the world without cure.
You got it NFF is the destroyer of talents in Nigeria, they start by hiring coaches with zero trophy cabinet to share salary with, omg bad players are also selected to share monies with. Nigeria is in trouble!!!!
Una Don start again make una pay those players, and also make una no do anything to sack that coach. Na every time we go hear say una no dey pay our girls.
These brainless idiots are the reason why our football has been stymied for so so long.For no right thinking business man will ever consider investing his money in our league/football.
Even our own like Dangote and many others are refusing to invest simply because of these dead brains in the glasshouse.
Just listen to the idiot saying FIFPRO can’t do nothing. But they have already done great great damage to sponsorship deals and his dead brain is unable to come to terms with that. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. NEXT IS, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ALLOCATION OF FUND BEING MADE TO STOP. WHILE EVERY FIFA’S MONEY BEING MADE TO, THOROUGHLY AND TRANSPARENTLY REFLECT EVIDENCE OF SPENDING, WITH ANY REFUSAL TO COMPLY,ATTRACTING NFF TOTAL ISOLATION FROM WORLD FOOTBALL IN ALL RAMIFICATIONS.
NOW THEN, WE GO COME ASK HOW UNA DEY? AND ANY RIGHT THINKING GOVERNMENT WEY NO WANT TROUBLE FROM THE VAST POPULACE OF FOOTBALL LOVERS, WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT INTERVENE WITH EFCC, OTHERWISE WE STAY LIKE THAT. THANK GOD WE HAVE NIGERIA PLAYERS REPRESENTING US IN WELL ORGANISED LEAGUES TO FOCUS ON. STUPID BUNCH OF PRIMITIVE AGE MENTALITY.
I wonder how these guys sleep at night stealing people’s money.
please can someone explain to me FIFA statutes. you talk, probe, arrest NFF official. they tag it as interference and immediately ban the country. now there is a problem of unpaid bonuses and salaries, they are not saying anything (FIFA) and when people stakeholders and Goverment talk, they will say interference. the irony is that govt is the biggest funder of the game and yet not allowed to say anything
Nigeria is yet to see a government that is ready to develop sports. FIFA cannot do anything if these nitwits are FORCED, COERCED TO RESIGN. We are not serious yet
By the time fifa fires u idiots with sanctions , na then una go know say the the storm na hurricane katrina. Shameless idiots! Fifa should just hammer them huge sanctions so that their brain go reset. Thieves. Ndi ori!!!
Brother, can you imagine THE bunch of sick cloddish animals pretending to be HUMANS, managing our football?
Truth be told, WE DEY FALL OUR HANDS OOO…. ALLOWING THESE THINGS COME NEAR POSITION OF AUTHORITY. I WATCHED WITH EXCITEMENT ALBEIT SHAMEFULLY HOW A SO CALLED NIGERIAN SENATOR, EKWEREMADU AND WIFE WERE THOROUGHLY DRESSED DOWN BEYOND RECOGNITION BY A SIMPLE LOOKING BRITISH JUDGE FOR INTENDING TO BULLY A DEPRIVED YOUNG LAD INTO SURRENDERING HIS ORGAN FOR THEIR OWN DAUGHTER. IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING, THE NEVER DONE ANYTHING WRONG LOLZZZ,, BECAUSE THEY BROUGHT THE VICTIM TO ENGLAND WITH PROMISE TO PAY £20000; SUCH PALTRY SUM ONLY GOOD TO BE APPRECIATED BY A THOROUGHLY DEPRIVED, YET MADE THAT WAY BY SUCH SENATOR’S FAILURE TO DELIVER IN OFFICE. THEY COULDN’T EVEN UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR FAILURE AS POLITICAL LEADERS IS THE REASON THE VICTIM WAS READY TO SURRENDER HIS KIDNEY FOR MERE £20000.
BUT A SANE HUMAN IN A SANE SOCIETY HAD TO CALL THEM OUT ON HOW THEIR FAILURE/CRIMINALITY HAS HELPED IN BULLYING THAT VICTIM TO LOSE HIS SENSE OF SELF VALUE.
THIS IS THE LEVEL OF REASONING THAT PERVADES THE NIGERIA GOVERNMENT AND STRETCHES OUT INTO THE MINDSET OF THE DEPRIVED MASSES.
NFF, Please pay our girls. They deserve extra
Guys, all these comments should go to Twitter, They won’t read it here. Let us start a trend and copy FIFA. That way, they will take us seriously.
I seconded this idea. We have over 50 million Nigerians that have access to the internet. Let’s make this go viral so those animals in glass house will know that this is not business as usual. These pigs have been killing Naija football for too long and it’s to put an end to that nonsense.
NFF got called out and they are trying to save face!
Only the FG can stop those crooks. Stop any salaries they are collecting from either or both state governments and at the federal level estacode inclusive. Stop any monthly subvention allowance to nff. Ask all state governments to stop state sponsoring of football clubs, instead concentrate on infrastructural development and school sports.
All those nff criminals will disappear within a year when there is no money.
Who want to sponsor SE when criminals are in charge?
Brodaman Kim. 100% supported.
It is because our talents are passionate. If all the national teams deliberately fail to qualify for even basic competitions for say 2 years, glass house will have nothing else to do but resign.
However, peoples future are at stake so competitions qualification money will always come to be misused
Storm in a teacup? Stop playing the ostrich? Hahahaha! Wooow, impressive command of the English language. These NFF guys sabi book sha! Patrick Obahiagbon still dey learn compared to these hoodlums.
When they want to create opportunities to steal, the big English starts tumbling out of their crooked mouths.
No cause for alarm though. This is NFF just lashing out in frustration. Their evil plans have been frustrated. The whole world is now watching them. Many of them have already made plans of how they will spend their share of the loot, so you can imagine how difficult it is for them to now give up that money to pay the team. But they as things stand, they have no choice but to cough up that money.
Ademola Olajire, its spokesperson used to be a very fantastic journalist in a newspaper before his present position
NFF, please take a bow and go! Out of a corrupt nation must come a corrupt football federation.