NFF: We Don’t Sleep With Female Players
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has reacted to allegations in some quarters that members of the football body sleep with players of the women’s national team, the Super Falcons, so as to get playing time with the team.
Speaking in an interview with The Punch, Chris Green, a member of the executive committee of the NFF, said he was not aware of officials sleeping with players for them to be invited to the women’s national team.
Green said: “I haven’t heard of any official wanting to sleep with a player before such a player is invited (to the Falcons). I haven’t seen it and I don’t think it exists.”
NFF boss, Amanju Pinnick
His reaction comes after former Falcons player Omo-Love Branch, accused the federation officials of sleeping with Falcons players in
exchange for places in the team.
Branch said: “Coaching is not the problem. The problem is the top people at the NFF, the big guys. We have good players but people want to bring their girlfriends and goddaughters to the team. I heard some girls are even forced to sleep with officials just to be part of the team.
“I remember when they (Falcons) came here (South Africa) for the AWC in 2010. I saw the way some players were talking to their coaches. I asked them why they were talking to their coaches like that. I discovered that some of the girls were dating senior officials and that was why they could talk to their coaches like that. That is what is happening to women’s football in Nigeria.
“I’m far away but if they can allow us to manage the team, we will make it better. If I get the opportunity, I will give them my conditions, nobody will bring players for me. I will have an assistant who will take care of that.
“I will want everyone on the technical crew to be a woman. I won’t want a guy among us. (Paul) Hamilton, (Ismaila) Mabo were the best coaches we had, they didn’t date their players.”
The allegations comes days after Amaju Pinnick, the president of the NFF, said that the federation will put all efforts together to improve women’s football in Nigeria.
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