Lobi Stars
technical adviser, Godwin Koko Uwua has told SportingLife that the mid-week
matches are not good for the Nigeria football. The former Enyimba FC of Aba manager said the
organizers of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) should have
considered so many things before fixing mid-week games.
Uwua
complained of fatigue as the players are not finding it easy with frequent
travels to play league games within few days on bad roads.
TheMakurdi-based outfit suffered a 4-0 defeat to MFM in the match day 3 game in
Lagos on Sunday before returning to Makurdi to thrash ABS 3-0 in the match day
4 on Wednesday.
“We thank
God that we won our match against ABS. But I must tell you that the long
journey is really affecting how we play our games. Mid-week football is not
good for us and not everything you see that you copy. You have to understand
that our roads are bad. And we have to travel for league game within three days
interval, it is not good at all,” the former Niger Tornadoes coach said to
SportingLife.
Uwua, who
helped a South Africa club, Free State Stars gain promotion to the Premier
Soccer League in 2007, said any journey that is more than three hours is
usually by air in South Africa.
“In South
Africa, any journey that is more than three hours is by air. In England, which
they are taking after too travel by air for any match that is more three hours
because of jet lag. We traveled about 12
hours to Ibadan for 3SC game on Sunday and it really affected my team’s
performance, and we had to travel to Markurdi the following day to play against
Kano Pillars on Wednesday. The following morning, we were on the road for
another 13 hours journey to Lagos for MFM game. It is not easy and not good for
our football. The distance covered is not favourable. We are doing something we
don’t understand. Tomorrow (Friday) we will be on the road again to
Port-Harcourt to play against Rivers United on Sunday. For how long are we
going to continue with this?,” Uwua lamented.
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