Afrigather Former Tremendous Eagles midfielder Mikel Obi has revealed that he paid for Nigeria’s Olympic soccer crew’s flight to Brazil for the 2016 Rio Olympics, Soccernet.ng studies.
Final week, Mikel bought a variety of flack after criticizing gamers with twin nationalities who fell again to African nations after failing to get referred to as up by European international locations.
Nevertheless, he bought a variety of backlash for his assertion, and he got here out to shed extra mild on the rational behind his assertion on Thursday. In the midst of explaining himself, he additionally laid naked among the issues he skilled whereas taking part in for Nigeria.
Mikel revealed how the poor planning of the Nigeria Soccer Federation and the Nigeria Olympics Committee nearly stopped the under-23 crew from taking part in on the 2016 Rio Olympics.
“Once I represented my nation on the Olympics in Brazil, we needed to fly there, and we waited for morning until night time, ready for a aircraft to take us to Brazil,” Mikel mentioned on his podcast.
“There was no aircraft to take us to Brazil as a result of there was in-fighting behind the scene of who was going to choose up the tab.
“The FA didn’t wish to decide up the tab, the federal government I feel launched the cash, however the FA or whoever the cash bought into his arms refused to launch the cash.
“So we waited on the airport from cash until night time however there was no flight. I needed to pay for that flight to take us to Brazil. And these are little issues.”
Mikel additionally talked about that in his taking part in days, there have been events when the NFF selected poor inns for the gamers, prompting him to pay for an additional lodge by himself.
“I needed to kind out my lodge as a result of the lodge they supplied for us had been so unhealthy to remain in. I needed to transfer to someplace extra conducive for gamers to carry out,” Mikel added.
Regardless of Mikel’s revelations, it appears the NFF are previous that section, as in recent times, they’ve been fairly strong with their logistics.
