League kickoff date to be decided Friday
The
management of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Nigeria
Premier League (NPL) will meet with club owners on Friday to decide
when 2010/2011 Premier League football season will start.
According to the
Acting General Secretary of the NFF, Musa Amadu, the management of the
football federation and that of the premier league will meet on Friday
to harmonise plans for the new season.
The season had
earlier been scheduled by the premier league to commence this weekend
but the football federation, following the now annulled August 26
elections, postponed the kickoff indefinitely.
Amadu, who now
heads the secretariat of the NFF in an interim capacity, however said
after a recent meeting between the NFF and the Minister of Sports
Ibrahim Bio, as well as the NSC Director General, Patrick Ekeji, that
the league may commence a day or two before the nation’s Golden Jubilee
celebration or immediately after the celebration billed for October 1.
Players’ welfare
Other issues to be
disccussed at the meeting, include the welfare of players, referees,
match commissioners and other class of officials.
It will also
examine all the venues for the league and look at the ones that have
met the set standard and those that need to be worked on.
Meanwhile, the club
sides that make up the Nigerian Premier League will on Thursday
converge in Abuja for a workshop aimed at enhancing the health and
nutrition of the league’s players.
The event will take place at the FIFA Goal Project situated inside the National Stadium complex.
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