Nigerian President Suspends Super Eagles From International Football
June 30th, 2010 by admin
The important thing when getting knocked out of the World Cup is not to overreact. It’s not the end of the world. It’s just the end of your tournament. So you dust yourself off, get ready to start again and prepare to do better in the next tournament. Goodluck Jonathan disagrees.
The Nigerian President was apparently so disappointed with the Super Eagles’ World Cup performance (finishing bottom of Group B) that he’s for two years.
“Mr President has directed that Nigeria will withdraw from all international football competition for the next two years to enable Nigeria to reorganise its football,” Ima Niboro, Jonathan’s senior communications adviser, told reporters.
“This directive became necessary following Nigeria’s poor performance in the ongoing FIFA World Cup,” he said.
So if Goodluck Jonathan gets his way, Nigeria won’t even enter qualification for Africa Cup of Nations 2012. Because… that will help Nigeria prepare for future international tournaments? I don’t follow. What I do follow, is that Jonathan appears to have found a loophole in FIFA’s strict policy against government meddling.
Usually any government interference results in FIFA suspending the national team from all international football. Which is usually a punishment too great for the government to risk. But in this case… since President Jonathan actually wants to suspend Nigeria from international football, FIFA’s reaction plays right into hands. So well played President Jonathan, if you pull this off you are officially the first politician to outmaneuver Sepp Blatter. So well done. But it’s still a terrible idea.
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