A call has been made to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and other stakeholders on the need to have very good playing surface for the senior national team of Nigeria, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Nigeria have decided to move their games to the Godswill Akpabio stadium in Uyo from the Moshood Abiola stadium in Abuja, which have been their home for the last two years despite complains from the players about the poor nature of the pitch.
Speaking on the main issue the players are facing, Aina said the lack of a proper playing surface is a bigger hindrance to their quest to dominate Africa and the world at large, more than even the much talked about non payment of allowances.
” You see the whole issue of unpaid allowances is not pleasant at all but that is not our major problem. If we can get at least ten good pitches where we can play train and play our games at home, we will be unplayable. If you remember we won all our away games during the world cup qualifiers but struggled at home. It’s the playing surface”, he said.
” Alex (Iwobi) complained about it and he is very correct. We will beat almost any team in Africa and probably the world if we get good pitches in Nigeria. The team is loaded with talents, all we need is a better surface to express ourselves”, he rounded up saying.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
