Robo Worldwide chairman Emmanuel Osahon has delivered a strong and damning evaluation of the state of Nigeria’s soccer growth, calling for an pressing reset of the nationwide workforce construction and a return to the merit-based system that after made the Tremendous Eagles feared throughout the continent.
Talking passionately in regards to the failures which have plagued Nigerian soccer in recent times, Osahon stated the time has come for the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF) to cease counting on shortcuts and beauty options.
As a substitute, he urged a return to a development-driven technique that blends home-based expertise with foreign-based stars, just like the system deployed by iconic coach Clemens Westerhof throughout Nigeria’s golden period.
“We as soon as had an ideal steadiness — now the construction is damaged, and it should be mounted,” Osahon declared.
He praised the present method of Tremendous Falcons coach Justine Madugu, who has actively mixed native and abroad expertise in a fashion that mirrors Nigeria’s most profitable soccer durations. Osahon stated the ladies’s nationwide workforce is demonstrating what correct team-building seems like and challenged the boys’s aspect to comply with go well with.
However the Robo chairman didn’t cease there. He expressed deep frustration over what he described because the decline of youth growth, arguing that Nigeria is now not producing elite expertise on the fee it as soon as did.
The rationale?
“Brokers now affect alternatives at youth ranges. It’s killing development and destroying meritocracy,” he lamented.
Osahon stated this unhealthy development has made it more and more troublesome for real younger abilities to rise from academies into the U-17 and U-20 nationwide groups — pathways that after produced international superstars like Mikel Obi, Ogenyi Onazi, Victor Osimhen, Samuel Chukwueze, and Kelechi Iheanacho.
He insisted that the NFF should step apart and permit coaches the full freedom to pick gamers solely on efficiency and advantage if Nigeria is to reclaim its revered place in world soccer.
“Solely a clear, merit-based system can restore belief. With out it, Nigeria will proceed to float,” Osahon warned.
His message is a name to motion:
Repair the muse, restore advantage, empower coaches — and Nigerian soccer will rise once more.
