The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will in the coming days charge Nigeria senior national team forward Victor Osimhen with inappropriate conduct for his verbal attack on Nigeria senior national team coach Finidi George. OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Finidi who was the team coach until Friday When he submitted his resignation letter following the NFF’s announcement that it would appoint an expatriate coach, he was criticized by the Napoli striker, angered by reports that the coach was questioning his commitment to the team.
Osimhen attacked the coach for the reason he missed the World Cup qualifying matches against South Africa and Benin Republic, in which they drew 1-1 and lost 1-2 respectively, to drop to fifth place in their group. , four points behind the leader. Rwanda.
NFF President Ibrahim Musa Gusau has already spoken to Osimhen about his outburst and Finidi also reached out to him. The report he reacted to is false and misleading, unfortunately he did not confirm it before reacting,” said a member of the NFF board of directors. OwnGoalNigeria.com.
“Osimhen is a role model and the only way we can help the incoming coach stamp his authority on the team is by using him as an example. He crossed the line with his outburst even when Finidi called him to explain that he still did not see fit to retract his statements. We will not tolerate that and after the salah break we will sit on the issue. “I can tell you that he will not be on the team until he repents of his actions,” he concluded.
Ade Emmanuel
