Nigeria places too much emphasis on football - Adedoja
Professor Adedoja made this pronouncement while speaking with sports writers at the ongoing 13th edition of West African University Games (WAUG) at University of Ilorin sports complex, Kwara State.
The ex-minister stated that too much emphasis were being placed on the round leather game to the detriment of other sports in which he believed that Nigeria has abundant talents that could be harness for greater limelight.
He thereby charged the NSC and other stakeholders to embark on developmental programmes that can make other sports more competitive and sought after rather than football that has taken the shines away from others.
Also, he urged the administrators to fashion out ways of improving their various sports and make it of international repute while sighting the case of FIFA who has succeeded over the years to market the game and created a niche for the game widely regarded as king of all sports across the globe.
"Though in Nigeria, we have talents across the federation, but the problem is that every corner in the country, football is being played all round while other sports failed to enjoy the kind of available facilities like football, administrators should find a lasting solution to improve their games as being done in the international sports".
"Football has gained international recognition and that is why it is rated higher than combination of many other sports, every nation belong to FIFA because that is the only avenue to gather momentum in the world of sports.
Some nations do not take part in other sports apart from football, because they want to belong to global society in which football commands respect."
"Football makes some countries to get favour internationally because of the significance of the game unlike others, but my own view is that adequate attention should be given to other sports and not only football, as this will facilitate speedy development of other games in the near future". He opined.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Rapheal Ashaolu Gamji Members Association Kwabes Kwara Polytechnic General Hospital, Offa Sabo-Oke Sidikat Akaje Oko-Erin Muhammad Fawaz Abubakar Arinola Lawal Ahmed Mohammed Rifun Arca Santa Ayo Adeyemi Demola Banu Ayegbeni Abdulahi Abubakar Bata United Nigeria Airline Tosin Saraki Abdulrasaq Alaro Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab Kwara Central Wahab Isa Sardauna Of Ilorin Tafida Of Kaiama Ibrahim Agboola Gambari Senior Ibrahim Suleiman Ishola Abdullahi Kwara Pdp Ibrahim Sulu Gambari Yusuf Ali Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone Ibrahim Gambari Ibraheem Abdullateef Bayo Onimago Umar Danladi Shero Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board Imodoye Writer’s Enclave Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen Kwara State Council Of Chiefs Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita Joseph Alex Offorjama NITDA Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu LEAH Charity Foundation Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies Offa Descendants Union Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union Yahaya Jibril Usman Simeon Sule Ajibola Okasanmi Ajayi Galland Marcias Saliu Oluwole Okin Biscuit Durbar Tafida Of Ilorin Ahmed \'Lateef Ayo Opadokun Sobi Hill Adekunle David Dunmade Age AbdulKareem Third Estate Daud Adeshola Kunbi Titiloye Ado Ibrahim Saliu Ajia Iyeru Grammar School Adedipe Ilorin Likeminds Foundation Tunde Kazeem Salary David Oyepinola Adedumoye Suleiman Ajadi Paul Odama Olomu Frootify Oja-Oba Wale Oladepo

