Former Super Eagles Goalkeeper, Ike Shorunmu believes that greedy football agents were killing Nigerian football with their quest to make quick money through selling immature domestic players to obscure foreign clubs. Shorunmu said Nigerian national teams were not doing well in international football because the country no longer produced quality stars.
He lamented that football agents go round the country searching for talented players, who were not yet fully developed and therefore don’t understand the philosophy that guides the game, and then sell them to obscure clubs in Europe and Asia.
According to Shorunmu, the Super Falcons failed at the ongoing Women World Cup in France because the country no longer produced quality football stars in the women league.He also explained that the underdevelopment of the Nigerian league was another factor that has a ripple effect on the performance of players in international engagements.
“The Nigerian national teams have continued to find it difficult to challenge the world’s top teams because due to the activities of football agents.“During my era, before a player went abroad to play for any club, that player must have attained a level of development on and off the pitch. Players were not just sent abroad even if the player was talented. Read more