The president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Ibrahim Musa Gusau has confirmed the sacking of some backroom workers and additionally technical assistants of the varied arms of the nationwide workforce of Nigeria.
Rumours has been going on about the trimming down of the coaches and backroom workers of the varied arms of the Nigerian groups and Gusau in an interview confirmed it is true. He mentioned the transfer is meant to reduce the excesses of having too many palms in a nationwide workforce.
He mentioned it was half of the value reducing measures embarked on by the new board of the NFF and the affected coaches and backroom workers have been instructed their destiny. For the Super Eagles he mentioned the choice is why some of the coaches and backroom workers didn’t make the journey to the pleasant recreation towards Portugal, which Nigeria misplaced 0-4.
“We started with Super Eagles by trimming the backroom staff to a manageable number from the over 20 attained in the past during their last friendly in Portugal. This I must confess saved us millions of Naira that should have gone into payment of flight tickets and accommodation, as well as daily allowances and expenditures”, he instructed Complete Sports.
” These measures will additionally have an effect on the Super Falcons, Falconets, Flamingos and the Olympic Eagles and different age-grade nationwide groups. Henceforth, solely 4 coaches will be connected to every of the nationwide groups, but maybe, the Super Eagles and Super Falcons getting some preferential remedy as the event calls for.
“The issue of coaches cut across all national teams including the Super Eagles. We cannot be managing 7-8 coaches in a team. That is an invitation for chaos and it’s money-consuming. To this end, we have told some of the coaches that their services are no longer required while some may be redeployed, ” Gusau said