The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has canvassed the need to restructure the entire football teams (administration) in Nigeria to make them more purposeful and result-oriented henceforth.
“I think we really need to go back and see how we can restructure the entire football teams, not just the Super Eagles, to make them result-oriented,” Mark said after Nigeria crashed out of the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup on Monday evening.
The Super Eagles was beaten by the Les Blues of France.
Mark, who watched the match along with the Senate Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba; and the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Edem Duke, in his Apo official residence, said: “I am sure when the Nigeria Football Federation, President Aminu Maigari, comes back from Brazil, he will need to review the situation, identify the problems and explain to Nigerians what went wrong.”
All the same, Mark said of the match against France: “This is football.
“There has to be a winner and a loser.
“Unfortunately, our Super Eagles could not fly today (Monday).
“We were not lucky.”
Senator Mark, who led the Federal Government delegation to the opening ceremony in Brazil, however, thanked Nigerians for their support to the Super Eagles.
He reiterated that sports, especially football, has become an international tool to measure the strength and weakness of nations of the world, a development he counseled should not be taken for granted.
“For the fact that football is now a tonic for our unity in Nigeria, we must take it seriously and invest on it,” he stressed.
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