NFF to raise $2.8m for Eagles, says Pinnick

Leader of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinninck, on Friday said the organization was gaining a colossal ground towards raising $2.8m for the Super Eagles to support them do well at the2018 World Cup.

Pinnick said this in Ibadan amid the divulging of the Odua Football League logo and introduction of the association at the Cocoa House office of the OFL. The NFF president said the body was endeavoring to guarantee that there was no "human" blunder when Nigeria recorded out in Russia for the World container later in the year.

At the occasion were previous FIFA Technical Instructor, Adegboye Onigbinde; previous secretary of the NFF, Taiwo Ogunjobi; Acting Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria, Seye Oyeleye; ex internationals, Femi Opabunmi and Gbenga Okunowo; the First Vice President of the NFF, Seyi Akinwunmi; and games magistrates from the six South-West states.

The alliance, which will start soon, will have 12 groups toward the start with no assignment in the first and second year. The objective is to have players that have not played in any of the Nigerian groups, with 20 groups focused before the finish of the third season.

Pinnick stated, "I have been meeting individuals and having arrangement of gatherings with them since we are endeavoring to raise $2.8m for the Super Eagles. We need to give them their cash before the finish of April so the weight will be on the group not on NFF. We need to ensure that we go to the World Cup with no human blunder with respect to the NFF.

"Our mentors are in a camp as of now. We have our players playing consistently in their clubs, so we are preparing completely for the World Cup. We attempt however much as could reasonably be expected to converse with the mentors in their clubs that they are Nigerian players who must not play a moment fiddle since they are heading off to the world Cup.

"Individuals are presently discussing Oghenekaro Etebor's endeavors in Las Palmas in La Liga. I called him and instructed him to leave his previous club where he was not a general. Today, he is playing against Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo et cetera. Those are the players he will play against at the World Cup."

While praising the Western Nigeria Football Forum for the territorial association activity, Pinnick said the venture would be repeated in different zones, focusing on that it would be advanced as a strategy report of the NFF to create football in all aspects of the nation.

"The NFF will sustain this and make it an arrangement for different zones to imitate. It is a solid rivalry that ought to be created and not a contention among the zones," he said.

Akinwunmi, who headed the group that started the possibility of the class, said the development started in 2015 and that the point was to enable the adolescents, utilising their aptitudes and physical capacities. He said under the activity, there was a program intended for mentors that would be facilitated by Onigbinde. As indicated by him, the alliance is a young organisation inside the six South-West expresses that will be partitioned into two sections for nearness purpose, including that Odua Football League Television will be built up to increase the thought.