No Nigerian player good enough for CAF Footballer of the Year – Okocha
January 9, 2016
Former Super Eagles captain Austin Jay-Jay Okocha has said that Nigeria performed poorly at the just concluded Glo-CAF Awards because no Nigerian player is good enough to be named African Footballer of the Year.
Okocha told journalists at the event in Abuja that Nigerian football had gone down drastically.
According to him, the country now ranks a distant 66 in the world and 14 in Africa, adding that the results posted recently by Nigerian teams and clubs in Africa have not been very encouraging.
The former Bolton Wanderers captain said the country must go back to the basics and accept that it is no longer ranked among the giants of African football.
He explained that doing that would not only help the country to not only rise up the world football rankings, but also to start preparations for the 2017 Cup of Nations and the 2018 World Cup respectively on time.
January 9, 2016
Former Super Eagles captain Austin Jay-Jay Okocha has said that Nigeria performed poorly at the just concluded Glo-CAF Awards because no Nigerian player is good enough to be named African Footballer of the Year.
Okocha told journalists at the event in Abuja that Nigerian football had gone down drastically.
According to him, the country now ranks a distant 66 in the world and 14 in Africa, adding that the results posted recently by Nigerian teams and clubs in Africa have not been very encouraging.
The former Bolton Wanderers captain said the country must go back to the basics and accept that it is no longer ranked among the giants of African football.
He explained that doing that would not only help the country to not only rise up the world football rankings, but also to start preparations for the 2017 Cup of Nations and the 2018 World Cup respectively on time.
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