The need to sustain Eagles' Triumph in South Africa

Nigeria first won the africa cup of nations in 1980 when she hosted the event,  it took nigeria another 14years to lift the trophy again and that was in 1994 when tunisia hosted. The senior national team known as the super eagles also qualified for the FIFA World cup for the first time, they crashed out in the round of 16 to Italy, and got there highest Fifa ranking to date, they ranked 9th in the world. From that time things began to go wrong with the team and constant changing of coaches did not help matters. Nigeria qualified for the 1998, 2002 world cups, failed to qualify in 2006 and managed to qualify for africa's first world cup hostin but in all failed to make an impact. Nigerians had to wait for 19 good years before the Eagles won another AFCON title which they won after beating burkina faso 1 nil in the final. After winning the third AFCON title what next. The nigeria football federation should give coach steven keshi his technical crew maximum financial, material, logistic, and moral support to anable him sustain the tempo, the national sports commission should go back to school sports(academicals) to fish out talents of tomorrow. The government and politicans should stay clear of football and sports in general were they use compilmentry cards to impose misfits on the coaching crew. Football administrators should revamp and reorganize our various leagues in the country to help the coaching crew get the best for our national team the super eagles. Muliti national companies and well meaning individuals should sponsor our football and not wait for a trophy before splashing the cash. If all these are put to work we wont have to wait another 19 years for a trophy.  Lewachi arinze(lonestriker sports).

Written by a guest blogger Lewachi Arinze(a.k.a The Lonestriker)
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