By Albert Akota
The Executive Secretary of Nigeria Premier League, Mr. Tunji Babalola has insisted that the present downward trends in Nigeria football would continue until genuine attention is paid to the development of game from the grassroots.
The scribe who disclosed this at Gwagwalada during Capital City Academy and Sensational Stars Academy final of the 2014 Gwagwalada Football Coaches U-15 Competition, said no country ever develop in the game of football where administrators pay only lip services to the development of the game at the grassroots.
According to him “the future of the country’s football lies at the grassroots. We continue to bemoan the downward trend in our football, with less emphasis at the grassroots. but we have not genuinely decided to work out modalities of how these ageing players would be replaced.
“We have not done enough to genuinely develop the talents at the grassroots, If we don’t take time, we would soon be faced with a situation where we would start to recycle same set of players at every tournament, “he noted.
