Sports activities editor and journalist, Opeyemi Akinyode, has reacted to Nigeria’s efficiency within the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, saying the Tremendous Eagles didn’t deserve a spot at the match.
Akinyode reacted to Nigeria’s defeat by DR Congo in an interview on Channels Tv’s The Morning Transient on Monday.
He blamed the setback on these dealing with sports activities administration, saying they don’t perceive how deep and demanding the enterprise of sports activities has turn into globally.
“You may’t give what you don’t have. We don’t deserve to be at the World Cup. Severe groups go by way of the common qualifiers; you possibly can’t undergo the again doorways. Possibly the God of soccer wished a second probability for us.
“Severe groups are already going to the World Cup. They’re already signing media partnerships. However are you aware that we barely have an official photographer for the NFF? They decide footage from bloggers. It’s so simple as that,” he mentioned.
In accordance to him, Nigeria’s soccer struggles stemmed from a steady recycling course of inside sports activities management, which throws away competence and brings in mediocrity on the altar of patronage.
The sports activities editor, nevertheless, cautioned that the consequence witnessed within the qualifiers is the pure end result of such administrative failures, noting that “that is what we’re going to have”.
DAILY POST reviews that Nigeria misplaced their qualifying match in opposition to DR Congo and received’t be at the 2026 World Cup in Canada, the US, and Mexico.
