Nigeria failed to qualify for the World Cup 2022 – blame their disdain for football school structures and development
NIGERIA’S national men’s football team is absent from this year’s World Cup in Qatar. It is only the second time since its first appearance in the tournament in 1994 that the Super Eagles failed to qualify. Sports scientist and FIFA physical fitness instructor Isiaka Oladele Oladipo explains why the team missed out and what it must do to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. Author ISIAKA OLADELE OLADIPO, Professor of Sports and Exercise Physiology, University of Ibadan Why didn’t Nigeria qualify for the 2022 World Cup? It was not a day’s failure. It started a while before we played the…