The Nigeria Football Federation
president Amaju Pinnick has fired back at those who criticised his trip
to England to watch the Community Shield game between Arsenal and
Chelsea rather than watching any of the two Nigerian teams that were
involved in international matches on Sunday.
The U-23 Eagles and the Super Falcons
were involved in matches leading up to the Rio 2016 Olympic games on
Sunday. Some Nigerians who spoke on different radio and television
programmes insisted that it would have made better sense if Pinnick had
settled for the Enyimba/Rangers match in Aba rather than the game in
London, which he watched with the.....
new Eagles coach, Sunday Oliseh.
But Pinnick, who was spotted via a picture posted on Twitter
during the game in Wembley, said on Monday that it became necessary for
him to respond to the barrage of criticisms to make the critics
understand that he was in London for business.
He first reacted via Twitter before the NFF made a full response on their website.
“Hello all, no doubt I am an Arsenal fan but I will never relegate my calling at NFF for Arsenal,” he said.
“When Arsenal was playing against Manchester some months ago, I was on the road to Ibadan to watch 3SC against Rangers.”
While Pinnick was in London, the
Falcons, lost 2-1 to Equatorial Guinea in Bata and missed a chance to
participate in the 2016 Olympics, but the U-23 team led by Samson Siasia
held the Congolese to a 0-0 draw in Pointe Noire, to qualify for the
final round of the Rio 2016 qualifiers billed for Senegal.
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