By Saheed Afolabi
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Ibrahim Gusau has disclosed how the Glass House will utilize the FIFA forward support fund.
Gusau who just marked a yes in office as NFF boss has outlined the construction of a hostel accommodation for players and officials of the national team in order to ease away the funds expended on hotel accomodation for the national teams.
He lamented that majority of the resources NFF gets are spent on getting hotel accomodation for the national teams.
“By this time next year, we hope we have started and made some good progress in the building of our hostel accommodation for players and officials of the national teams through our FIFA forward support fund 3.0,” Gusau was quoted by Totori News.
“NFF will have the provision of the next phase of support of FIFA in the FIFA forward 3.0. If you remember i tried to make this known, that I am going to use that oppurtunity to build infrastructures like hostel accommodation.
“One of the key problems we are having is that, a lot of financial resources coming to the NFF, we used them in hotel accomodation. So, if we are able to have a befitting hostel, it will help the Federation to accommodate a lot of these young players we are inviting to the National teams to camp.”
Gusau also earmarked the construction of more football pitches and upgrade of the existing FIFA goal project pitch at the Package B of the Moshood Abiola Stadium, Abuja.
“As well as you see, we have only that pitch, the FIFA goal project pitch that is even a little bit downgraded. So, I think it is a high time for us to have a new pitch, both artificial and natural pitches for the Super Eagles and other teams. So, that is what we tend to do with our 3.0 FIFA forward support.
“By this time next year, we hope to see a lot of progress from the project. It will be very easy for monitoring because it’s going to happen here. So, you can come anytime and see what is going on.”
