NFF Spends Up To 90% Of Revenue On Team Accommodation, Gusau Reveals

The president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, has explained that the soccer body finds it difficult to meet most of its tasks because it spends between 80 and 90% of its revenue on paying accommodation fees for the country’s national teams.

Sports247 reports that Gusau underlined the costs of accommodation as one of the crucial points that block payments of camp allowances for players and the settlement of coaches’ salaries.

“From a lot of resources that come out of the presentation of our little sources of revenue, 80 to 90% of it goes into hotel accommodation of our teams. This is obviously making it difficult for us to attend to other issues.

“So, when it comes to issues of their allowances, our coaches’ welfare and the rest of it, one of the key and primary things for us is to make sure we have conducive camping for the players before you think of other things.

“It is only when they are prepared well and they go for tournaments that they can even claim something,” Gusau pointed out.

He then disclosed that the NFF is eagerly looking up to assistance from the world soccer governing body, FIFA, towards the completion of a hostel complex that was set in motion in March at the Goal Project in Abuja.

“When you go to other countries that are not up to the level of Nigeria as a nation, when you see their FIFA Goal Projects, where they accommodate and camp their players, you’ll feel ashamed as a Nigerian,” the NFF’s top shot stated.

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