Flying Eagles players have cried out over unpaid bonuses and allowances due to them, reports Completesports.com.
The holders secured a place in the final of the WAFU B U-20 Championship following a 3-1 victory over Niger Republic on Sunday night.
Aliyu Zubairu’s side will also compete at the 2025 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations following the victory over the Young Mena.
“We are not happy with what his happening. We are yet to receive a dime as camp allowance right from where we started preparation for the competition,” Completesports.com learnt from a reliable source.
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“They are not even talking about winning bonuses and allowances. Nobody has told us anything about our money.
“The sad thing is that bonuses and allowances from the last U-20 AFCON in Egypt and the World Cup in Argentina were not fully paid.
“The biggest inspiration for the players is the donations from some well meaning Nigerians which is around N20m at the moment.
“We just hope the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will do the right thing by paying us.”
The Flying Eagles will take on Black Satellites of Ghana in the final of the WAFU B U-20 Championship on Wednesday.
By Adeboye Amosu
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well i thought the issues of bonus for cadet teams were confined to history, When Amaju picnick said no more allowance for cadet teams
NFF, these boys are young enough to be your grand children. Are you guys now dragging match bonuses with your grand kids?
It’s not fair to deprive them of their hard earned bonuses!
Unlike SE players, these are young guys who have next to nothing, with families depending on them. Please pay them what is due to them.
Even for SE players who are multi millionaires, it is so disrespectful not to pay them their match bonus! It shows an utter disregard and lack of appreciation for the efforts of our players.
Is it not funny that Libya who CAF just punished have likely paid their players their match bonuses, while Nigeria is yet to do same?
For how much longer is this rubbish of nonpayment of bonuses going to continue?
Hire us a coach, for where? Pay bonuses, which side? So what exactly is being done with available funds?
Authorities need to step in and hold NFF accountable!
That house stinks. Guess what? I think NFF thrives in chaos. They will get a whiff of those who are grumpy and drop them when the AFCON begins and continue the circus ad infinitum. Find willing jacks to qualify for tournaments especially since most are biennially (so it’s a huge turnover), drop the problematic ones, repeat the shit show of shame. You know many young guys are desperate for fame so they will stomach anything thrown at them. Like they say, there are many fish in the ocean.
It’s a deliberate ploy by NFF to eat where they did not sow and kick out farmers who don’t begrudge their parasitic tendencies to feed fat off the sowers sweat.
This bad governance will continue. In their name, they’ll qualify for several tournaments by using destinies and campaign with the “track records” for new terms even if the main actors fumble in the proper competitions.
Check it out na. They can blame not winning trophies on the players and technical crews and not the poor preparations they afforded them because the world of football is still in the stone age
Corruption is a business in the federal republic and only Jesus can raise a leader who will destroy this demons. I call them demons because these people behave the same way and get even worse when we have a new leader.
In the nff house it’s unserious people that are there.