The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has been challenged to account for the over 960,000 Dollars it received from FIFA.
The call out came from Randy Waldrum, Super Falcons coach over the national female team’s poor preparations ahead of the forthcoming Women’s World Cup billed to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20.
The American and NFF have been at each other’s throat over attention given by NFF to the female team preparing for the world competition, after NFF cancelled a training camp scheduled for June 20 in Abuja.
The implication of the cancellation is that 23-woman squad would to travel to host country Australia to kick-start preparations.
Speaking on a podcast show ‘On the Whistle’, Waldrum tasked the federation to give an account of the $960,000 FIFA paid the federation for the Falcons preparations for the World Cup, which kicks off in 12 days.
The 66-year-old stated that the NFF owed him seven months salaries while some of the Falcons players were still owed match bonuses spanning two years.
“My issues with the federation are my issues, but I’m not going to be quiet anymore,” Waldrum stated.
“I have a real close contact in the US that is very connected and on some of the boards at FIFA. This person told me, that in October 2022, every country was given $960,000 from FIFA to prepare for the World Cup. Where is that money? If Nigeria got it in October, why didn’t we have a camp in November?” he queried