{"id":300871,"date":"2011-03-11T10:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T10:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/11\/nigeria-agent-scuttles-peru-friendly\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T10:10:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T10:10:30","slug":"nigeria-agent-scuttles-peru-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/11\/nigeria-agent-scuttles-peru-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Agent Scuttles Peru Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41.6996287546\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cbde1a16thisday180.jpg\" alt=\"This Day (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit This Day (Lagos)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>Olawale Ajimotokan<\/p>\n<p>10 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Echoes of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) misery in the hands of match agents played out again Thursday after the federation called off a proposed international friendly with Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the NFF&#8217;s Technical Committee, Chris Green, said yesterday that the cancellation arose because of the failure of the agent handling the brief to meet with the federation as arranged.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria was due to meet South American nation, Peru in Malta during the next FIFA window on March 29.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>The Peru cancelation is reminiscent of the handling of the Guatemala deal, and the recent Greenbowl Soccer Tournament where Nigeria made an 11- hour flight to Dallas for the tournament, only to learn on arrival in the US, the event was on hold because of ticketing problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Greenbowl Tournament was botched by US-based Nigerian agent, Pius Oleh, who has since asked the NFF board to forgive him for his role in the shoddy arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Arising from this development, Green said that henceforth, prospective\u00a0 agents would have to make a guarantee and sign a performance bond to show their capacity to deliver before they would be given the green light to organise friendly matches on behalf of the federation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103110496.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Agent Scuttles Peru Friendly\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Agent Scuttles Peru Friendly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Olawale Ajimotokan 10 March 2011 Echoes of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) misery in the hands of match agents played out again Thursday after the federation called off a proposed international friendly with Peru. Chairman of the NFF&#8217;s Technical Committee, Chris Green, said yesterday that the cancellation arose because of the failure of the agent handling the brief to meet with the federation as arranged. Nigeria was due to meet South American nation, Peru in Malta during the next FIFA window on March 29<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Agent Scuttles Peru Friendly - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/11\/nigeria-agent-scuttles-peru-friendly\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Agent Scuttles Peru Friendly - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Olawale Ajimotokan 10 March 2011 Echoes of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) misery in the hands of match agents played out again Thursday after the federation called off a proposed international friendly with Peru. 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