Team Nigeria’s captain to the Tokyo Olympic Games, Aruna Quadri has lamented his ouster from the Tokyo Olympics saying he has disappointed Sports Minister Sunday Dare who deserves more for his efforts in turning Nigerian Sports around.
Quadri who became Africa’s first Ping Ponger to play in the quarter-finals of the Rio Olympics in Brazil was bundled out in his Third Round after being drawn bye by Brazilian Gustavo Tsuboi 4-2 (15-13, 9-11, 6-11, 11-7, 7-11, 6-11).
Much was expected from the Nigerian but he succumbed to the Brazilian who was lowly ranked to him.
“Without doubt, Sports Minister Dare has done a lot to change sports and athletes welfare in his short time. His adopt an athlete initiative has impacted so much on many athletes. I feel disappointed I could not get a medal to say thank you”, Quadri said at the Games village mix zone in Tokyo.
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Continuing he said; ” If I’m to say the truth the Sports Minister has done very well. I have played at the Olympics, Commonwealth Games and Africa Games. During his time, no Minister in the past has done what he’s doing. I feel disappointed”, Quadri said.
He however confessed that his Brazilian opponent was better than him. “That’s sports for you. I am a better player than him in ranking but he played very much better to win. You know anyone in top 100 can spring a surprise at any time. I did not underrate him because we play in Bundesliga and I know what he’s capable of doing.
“It’s not the end of life. We’ll continue to work to see what will happen in future”.
With his defeat, all Team Nigeria’s Table Tennis players have all been knocked out from the Tokyo Olympics.
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U disappointed more than 200 million Nigerians who had faith in you not a miserable person who finds it hard to do his job. You don’t play for him but for your country. Get that into ur head, my friend.
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Quadri was playing table tennis for Nigeria before the current Minister of Sports was appointed. So he should stop politicizing sports.
Abi, and he has been losing even before his appointment.
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Now South Africa is in Crisis. Omg we are in Crisis Africa, we must sack all these white criminal coaches. Egypt and Ivory Coast just qualified with African Coaches. Safa must stop the controversial laws of qualifying for tournaments by playing zonal qualification. We must go back to seedling base on ranking and stop this fake way of qualifying after beating Lesotho Botswana and Zimbabwe. CAF president must stop this drama and Africa must wake up and know local ex internationals are key to African Football and must sack white coaches. Nigeria and South Africa are going down everyday and I whipe.
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SA has been bundled out of the Olympics. That doesn’t mean SA football is going down. I disagree completely with that. SA will bounce back in other competitions.
Nigeria is definitely not “going down” either. Our football is experiencing an upward swing. Watch us in the next Afcon.
So Bobby, it is not SA that’s in crisis. It’s you!
Yes our swimmers will take a lot of gold and also Akanni Simbine. But CAF president is a criminal SAFA also are dumb.