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NFF rejected my offer to help Eagles qualify for World Cup –Sylvanus Okpala
@Source: thesun.ng
Even in death! Take for instance, before Peter Rufai’s death was announced, a certain player in Europe had died in a car crash, one Diogo Jota who played for Portugal and Liverpool. I think Rufai died two or three days later. But the Nigerian media, both the electronic and print, were awash with stories and pictures of Diogo Jota with little or no mention about our own dear Rufai, a former captain of the Super Eagles of Nigeria. Every day when they would talk about Jota, they would devote over 10 minutes to talk about him, but if they wanted to talk about Rufai it would not be more than one minute, a whole former captain of Nigeria. I’m not saying you shouldn’t talk about Jota, but Rufai should be the first news before Jota. If you’re giving Jota seven minutes, Rufai deserves no less. In fact, it got to a point that whenever it was sports news and they wanted to talk about Jota and Rufai, I would switch off my television or radio as the case may be. And I would wonder, “What has happened to Nigerians that they don’t remember their past heroes, a legend like Rufai, who kept at the World Cup?” I’m not saying they shouldn’t talk about Jota, but this is Nigeria. Can they do the same thing for Rufai in Portugal? (…suddenly switches to Portuguese language and later translates in English). I played in Portugal for 11 years, so I have nothing against Portugal. I’ll always support Portugal at any international football tournament except when they’re playing against Nigeria, then, I’ll support Nigeria because that’s my country. But, again, we cannot throw away our own. How can we devote so much time to somebody who never played for Nigeria; he never even visited Nigeria once. And we’re putting him ahead of Peter Rufai. It’s very unfortunate.
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