Nigeria thanks CAF for World Cup assistance
The Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung has thanked the President of Confederation of African Football (CAF) Ahmad Ahmad for his support to the five African nations that qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Russia with particular reference to Nigeria’s football team.
Dalung expressed the country’s gratitude to Ahmad during a meeting with him yesterday at the FOUR SEASONS Hotel Casablanca Morocco where Nigeria’s Super Eagles Team B are currently taking part in the African Nations Championship (CHAN).
The CAF President granted a financial subsidy of five hundred thousand US dollars ($500, 000) to the five African teams that qualified for the World Cup in Russia to strengthen the technical supervision of the teams as well as Fieldwiz equipment, a technological device used for measuring the physical performance for outdoor team sports players.
The teams include the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and Senegal.
He commended the CAF President for his vision in changing the face of CAF and African football.
“I wish to thank you for turning around African football and giving it a facelift. Football in Africa today has been revolutionized and the effect of what we are seeing now is unprecedented. CAF now consists of a new generation of football administrators and I am happy too that we have a Nigerian in the person of Amaju Pinnick in the inner caucus of CAF.
“I thank you for supporting Nigeria with five hundred thousand dollars and an outdoor performance measurement equipment. This will assist the Nigeria Football Federation in preparing the Super Eagles for the World Cup.”
In his remark, the CAF President Ahmad congratulated Nigeria for qualifying for the quarter finals of CHAN, adding that Nigeria has always been the cynosure of all eyes at African and World Cup tournaments.
“Nigeria has played an important role in African football and is the strongest African contender at the World Cup in Russia. CAF is backing Nigeria to make a mark at the 2018 World Cup. We must prepare our African teams to make us proud at the World Cup,” Ahmad said.