The 2018
world Cup in Russia may have come and gone but the financial blessing from it
is still rolling in. Premier league clubs Enyimba and Ifeanyi Ubah are to
pocket $118,860 about N42.7million each for having their one and only player
Ikechukwu Ezenwa at the world cup.
Ezenwa it will be recalled was the only
player from the local league that made Coach Gernot Rohr's 23-man squad to
Russia where Nigeria failed to go beyond the group stage.
While the Nigeria
professional football league could boast of just one player, the Tunisian
league and Egyptian leagues respectively provided more players thus earning
more.
Formidable clubs like Zamalek, Ah Ahly, Club
Africain, Esperance, Etoile sportive known for making waves in the continent
all earned millions of dollars for parading local players.
Prior to the world
cup the need to include more of the local players in the team for exposure and
blend took the center stage among fans and analysts alike in Nigeria, but the
national coach stood his ground.
In a recent
interview however the German tactician said the local league players remain in
his plan adding that his assistants have been mandated to keep track of the players
doing well in their clubs with a view to giving them a chance prove their
skills in the national team especially ahead of the 2019 Nations cup and the
2022 World cup in Qatar respectively.
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