Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, President of the Nigeria Football Federation, has assured supporters, administrators, and Nigerians in general that the football regulatory body will sufficiently prepare the various national teams to bring joy and glory to the country in the next year.
While reflecting on the previous year 2024 and projecting for the future year 2025, Gusau stated that the NFF’s priority is on ensuring that all National Teams are well prepared to compete for honours at major events, rather than simply showing up to make up the numbers.
“The era of Nigerian teams arriving at major championships just to participate is gone. Our objective now is to ensure that our teams can strongly contend for honours anywhere, and that can only be done by preparing the teams well ahead of qualifiers and competitions. I personally insisted that the Super Eagles B start their camping early enough and the result is what we can see in their display against Ghana.
“The team has just one month to go before the CHAN tournament. That means they must go into camp immediately, and we will ensure that.”
Gusau stated that the National Teams performed admirably in the previous year, but he believes that the Super Eagles’ poor performance in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers has caused concern among administrators, enthusiasts, and supporters.
“Our commitment is to see how we can cobble back that Super Eagles squad that did the nation proud at the AFCON in Cote d’Ivoire, coming within 23 minutes of lifting the trophy. If we can find a way to do that, we can be sure that the target of winning the six remaining matches in the qualifiers to gain automatic qualification to the World Cup is achievable.
