A Football Administrator and Agent, Olanrewaju Moyero has lambasted Ondo State Football Association (FA) and football administrators for their inability and failure to encourage private football club owners in the state.
Moyero stated this on Wednesday in Akure at the inaugural Ondo State Chapter of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Parley.
The Proprietor of Moyero FC said he took his club to participate in the maiden edition of the Bet9ja Football League in Ekiti to make a ‘statement’ to the FA in Ondo State.
Moyero said the FA needed to start seeing other clubs in the state as contemporaries to Sunshine Stars FC and not only to promote the government-owned club.
“Ondo FA see private football as their enemy, what we did was to send message to Ondo State Football Association that in as much as they are are not ready to encourage private clubs.
“Not until when we begin to develop the culture of allowing the underrated clubs to raise their head, football will not move both at the national level and the state.
“With all sense of apology I want to say, that Ondo state Football Association and football administrators in the state are not ready to encourage private football owners .
“Let Ondo FA and football administrators know that talent did not reside in Sunshine alone, that there are lots of talents in those clubs they ignored.
“In 2010 I (Moyero FC) played final with Sunshine Stars ,then an allotment had to be given to the private club and the government club, they paid sunshine,while we have to fight for more than one and half year they could pay me N4.5 million.
“And they paid Sunshine more than N25 million, we are supposed to be paid the same amount, we fought for over one year , I had to petition the sitting governor before they could pay us.
“They pay us 4.5million why we spent more than 3million naira on every FA cup we participated.
Moyero, who also spoke about player development, said untill football administrators started seeing development of players from the grassroots, football will not develop in the country.
He also advised players not to make travelling to abroad their priority,adding that their career could be developed in the country with food agents announcing them to the world.
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