Counsel to the late Nigeria prolific goal scorer Rasidi Yekini, Barrister Jubril Mohammed Olanrewaju has posited that the nation football development has nosedived as it is heading for an unpalatable state.
Barrister Olanrewaju who made the observation after the inability of the nation’s under 20 team the Flying Eagles to qualify for the finals of the African Under 20 championship held in Egypt won by Senegal with a lone goal victory against the under 20 team of Morocco recently.
He explained that Nigeria level of football development can be determined by its results against countries playing against its noting that nations which dreaded playing against the country now do so with ease and often beat the nation at will.
The Counsel stated that the results obtained in recent tournaments is enough evidence to show that Nigeria’s fortune has nosedived stressing that the results of our football clubs are sufficient prove to the state of the nation’s development.
Barrister Olanrewaju said that Nigeria football clubs no longer go beyond the preliminaries level of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) tournament including CAF champions league and CAF cup as they are always knocked out of the annual tournaments being dominated by north and South African teams.
He therefore advocated for a return to grassroots football also known as street football in some parlance so that can be discovered while infrastructure would be put in place to be ensure that there is growth and development in the sector.
