Sports activities editor and journalist, Opeyemi Akinyode, has reacted to Nigeria’s efficiency within the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, saying the Tremendous Eagles didn’t deserve a spot on the event.
Akinyode reacted to Nigeria’s defeat by DR Congo in an interview on Channels Tv’s The Morning Temporary on Monday.
He blamed the setback on these dealing with sports activities administration, saying they don’t perceive how deep and demanding the enterprise of sports activities has turn into globally.
“You possibly can’t give what you don’t have. We don’t should be on the World Cup. Critical groups go through the common qualifiers; you may’t undergo the again doorways. Possibly the God of soccer needed a second likelihood for us.
“Critical groups are already going to the World Cup. They’re already signing media partnerships. However are you aware that we barely have an official photographer for the NFF? They choose photos from bloggers. It’s so simple as that,” he mentioned.
In response to him, Nigeria’s soccer struggles stemmed from a steady recycling course of inside sports activities management, which throws away competence and brings in mediocrity on the altar of patronage.
The sports activities editor, nevertheless, cautioned that the end result witnessed within the qualifiers is the pure consequence of such administrative failures, noting that “that is what we’re going to have”.
DAILY POST studies that Nigeria misplaced their qualifying match in opposition to DR Congo and gained’t be on the 2026 World Cup in Canada, the US, and Mexico.
