Sports
Ilechukwu wants Home-based Eagles to play final WCQ against Algeria
Since Nigeria already confirmed their place in next year’s World Cup, MFM coach, Fidelis Ilechukwu, is of the opinion that the remaining qualifying match against Algeria be executed by home-based players.
The Super Eagles last Saturday qualified for their sixth FIFA World Cup after beating Zambia 1-0 at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo, and are gunning to win their last clash with Algeria which is only for formality.
Ilechukwu, who is currently in Switzerland on a sponsored coaching course, believes players of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) should be availed the opportunity to improve themselves internationally.
“I feel giving the home-based players the chance to play against Algeria is the best idea,” Ilechukwu told Complete Sports.
Read Also: Amapakabo replaces Bosso at El-Kanemi
“Playing the NPFL lads will give them the confidence they need to improve their game.
“Some players from the Npfl might end up convincing the national team coaches that they’re good enough to play in top matches with the foreign based players, you never know.
“The likes of Chukwuka Onuwa and Sikiru Olatunbosun and others might just need this opportunity which will be beneficial to the team preparing for the 2018 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN),” the coach pointed out.
Nigeria will conclude their World Cup qualifying series when they play away to Algeria at the next international break in November.
RipplesNigeria… without borders, without fears
Click here to join the Ripples Nigeria WhatsApp group for latest updates.
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...