Former Super Falcons manager, Randy Waldrum, has expressed displeasure over what he described as ‘poor treatment’ by Nigeria Football Federation.
Waldrum warned that Nigeria’s football team will face many challenges in competing with other countries without proper infrastructure and support.
Speaking in an interview with Eagles tracker, on Friday, the 68 years old revealed the long-term plans he had in the works for the Super Falcons.
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Waldrum, who led the team to qualify for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup and 2024 Olympic Tournament in Paris, expressed concerns about NFF’s lack of investment in football.
He added that NFF was poor in handling finances during his four-year tenure, citing instances where he wasn’t paid for 14 months.
He said: “It’s easier to dispose coaches if they don’t win, but with what’s going on in Africa, it’s going to be difficult to continue winning if the Federation doesn’t start to support things better.
“If I wasn’t working at Pittsburgh, I would’ve lost my home here.
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“Nigeria almost feel like it’s a birthright to win the WAFCON, to win it because they’ve done so many times, but it won’t continue that way, and a day will come where they won’t qualify for the World Cup if they’re not careful.
“There’s so much potential to do great things on both the men and women’s side in Nigeria, and my hope when I took the job was that I could bring some new ideas and thought process, especially with our women being the best in the World here in the United States.
“I thought I could bring some of the organisational ideas, the long-term planning.
“I had developed a ten-year plan for Nigeria, for youth football and how it would translate into winning a World Cup within the next ten years and I hoped I could influence it that way because I knew they had great players.
“That’s why I took on the project, but I enjoyed my four years there. I also had some difficult time there, but we had a lot of great success, but I loved my time there.”
