Chief Adegboye Onigbinde
Former
Super Eagles coach Adegboye Onigbinde said on Monday that Nigeria would
be a force to reckon with in sports if available talents were to be
properly managed.
Onigbinde made the remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
“I’m never satisfied with any level of
achievement otherwise one could easily say ‘okay we have qualified for
the World Cup; we won the Africa Cup of Nations. So, everything is
perfect’, Onigbinde said.
“We used to say that the sky is the
limit but modern technology has proven that the sky has no limit, so our
ambition should not have any limit.”
He said that the nation could stand taller than its present ranking in football in spite of its achievements so far.
Onigbinde also urged administrators to
do the needful by ensuring that the country’s sportsmen and women are
nurtured to attain the status of other world-class athletes.
“I think our major problem is
development. I have said oftentimes in this country if we utilise the
environment and all the things God has given us in this country, for
example, I can’t see any other country that should be a threat to
Nigeria,” he said.
“But we are not getting our acts right and I think that’s the major headache.”
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