The chairman of the committee, Honourable Gbenga Elegbeleye, made the pledge yesterday while presenting a cheque of N100 Million to the winners of the just concluded Dozy Mmobuosi Super Cup Tournament, Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan in Abuja. He said Nigerian football will take back its pride of place in international football only when the league is run properly as it obtained in the 1970s and 80s.
According to him, Nigeria can surpass Morocco’s World Cup semifinal feat if the domestic league is properly run and players are well motivated with the right things put in place. “Nigeria can go all the way to the World Cup semi final like Morocco if our domestic league is properly run.
“We need to go back to the days when the national team was dominated by players from the domestic league. We have done it before when Nigeria won the 1980 Nations Cup with almost 80 or 90 percent of our domestic footballers.”
