Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) under Amaju Pinnick has been commended for restructuring Nigerian Football.
Kwara State born Sports philanthropist Babatunde Saliu Afase who gave the admonition while addressing journalists in Ilorin praised the present NFF administration for their outstanding restructuring of Nigerian Leagues.
He urged them to bring more innovations for total transformation of the country’s football.
“The positive change in our football is as a result of good leadership and hard work Amaju Pinnick and his members are putting into practice and I think they need to be commended and acknowledged for this,” said Afase.
“The standard of our Leagues and football has changed tremendously and there are better opportunities when a country’s football is properly managed and structured. The Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) has improved and we are all happy that we have a league that we can call our own, officiating of matches are now perfect and handlers of our various national teams are all competent and experienced, what we need to do now is to give them support and pray for them to succeed as it will be a collective praise,” the business man cum football enthusiast added.
He, however, urged the present NFF to continue with their transformation and developmental agenda of improving football and creating standard football structures in the country.