SL10.ng met with former Super Eagles player Emeka Ezeogu in Warri and the question of how professional Nigerian football clubs are came up; he got excited as he shared his thoughts on the current state of clubs in Nigeria.

“How can a club claim to be a professional club when you don’t have an asset?” Emeka Ezeogu asked.

“Nigerian clubs have failed to put a proper structure in place for continuity that’s why you see clubs struggle when a particular governor who loves football leaves”

“Can any Nigerian club boast of a stadium of their own or a property that represents the club? Do you know that most of these clubs pay so much to secure a hostel/camp for their players. Some don’t even have a club account and these clubs have sold players in the past valencia drakter med trykk for thousands of Dollars,Pounds, Naira or Euros,” said Ezeogu.

He continued: “Let me use Enyimba FC as an example, when you get to Aba and you pick a cab to take you to Enyimba FC, you don’t need to describe? The cab should take you straight there but that won’t happen because the inhabitant of the community don’t even know where Enyimba FC is in Aba.”

“Let me not go to Europe, let’s stay in Africa, for instance when you get to Cairo, at the airport and you tell a cab to take you to Al-Ahly, the cab takes you there easy and nice without stress because Al-Ahly has an asset.”

“Nigerian clubs will never think of replicating such at their clubs even when they see such in other leagues. At least a lot of Nigerian clubs have played on the continent. The people managing the clubs aren’t professionals,”Ezeogu stated.

With the growing concern of league football played in an empty to stadium, Emeka Ezeogu blamed the clubs for not having a relationship with their fans.

“Enyimba won the CAF Champions League back to back because the pillars in that team were boys from Aba”

“How can you bring back spectators to the stadium without a relationship between a club and the community? How can you build a team without the fans knowing the team?” Ezeogu asked.

“Take for example, when a ten year old boy or should I say a young boy knows that an Enyimba player lives a couple of street away from where he lives don’t you think he’ll be motivated to go and see such player play at the manchester united drakter med trykk stadium?

“That’s an attainable dream for the young man because he knows if the uncle he sees on the street can play for Enyimba he to can achieve such too”

“There are serious concern why league matches are played in empty stadium but from point of view I’ll hold the management of these clubs responsible because they don’t know it’s a professional job to make the club attractive to the fans. You can’t teach what you don’t know”

“Let me put this to you, if your neighbor plays for a local club won’t you at some point want to see him play live? You won’t only go there, you’ll invite a friend or two to come see him play live.”

“At this moment, no Nigeria football club has gotten to that level of a professional football club,” Ezeogu concluded.

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