{"id":17182,"date":"2019-10-24T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=17182"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:44:21","slug":"former-super-eagles-defender-reveals-delight-in-nigerias-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/former-super-eagles-defender-reveals-delight-in-nigerias-defeat","title":{"rendered":"Former Super Eagles Defender Reveals Delight In Nigeria\u2019s Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administrators of football in the country, and not the players, should bear all the responsibility of the failure of the home based Super Eagles to qualify for the next <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African_Nations_Championship\">African Nations Championship<\/a> (CHAN), according to ex-Eagles defender Sam Sodje.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Sodje, whose brother Efe Sodje represented Nigeria in the 2000 African Cup of Nations and the 2002 World Cup, has expressed his delight at the inability of the CHAN Eagles to pick a qualification ticket while charging the country to hold her top football officials accountable for the stunted growth of the Nigeria league.<\/p>\n<p>The home-based Super Eagles claimed a 2-0 victory over Togo in the second leg of their CHAN qualifier but, having lost the first leg by 4-1, were knocked out on 4-3 aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The former Leeds United defender, who made four appearances for Nigeria in a four year period, also lamented the poor state of the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL), stating that players\u2019 inactivity for over four months after the 2018\/2019 season ended was the biggest factor in the Eagles defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy that the CHAN Eagles did not qualify for the championship. I did not even wish for the CHAN team to win at home. The CHAN championship is meant for Africa countries that have quality leagues to display their local talents to the world,\u201d said Sam Sodje as monitored by Soccernet.ng.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigeria does not deserve to be there because our league is nothing to write home about. The league that is not functioning and well organised cannot be a good representative of the Africa continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel bad that the players could not play at the international level after being stopped from the mainstream Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFF has continued to neglect the domestic league because there are no measures to hold anybody responsible for the deplorable state of the NPFL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the CHAN Eagles had qualified for the competition, the federation would have been glad to be at the championship to benefit from the estacode even when they have done nothing to develop the league. I will not stop talking because Nigerian football needs total revamping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players are suffering and Coach Imama believes the domestic players are not teachable. That is not true. He is my friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe major problem the domestic players have is that they are not given the best assistance like their overseas-based counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis involves attractive salary, quality medical service, top-grade training facilities, insurance, etc. Our league needs publicity like the premiership,\u201d Sodje lamented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The administrators of football in the country, and not the players, should bear all the responsibility of the failure of the home based Super Eagles to qualify for the next African Nations Championship (CHAN), according to ex-Eagles defender Sam Sodje. 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