– Encouraged to keep giving their best every time they put on the national colours
– Officials were also not left out in the largess
Nigeria’s Super Eagles got a massive reward after their disappointing 1-1 draw against the Pharaohs of Egypt at the Ahmadu Bello stadium, Kaduna on Friday, March 25.
Oghenekaro Etebo’s strike seemed to have sealed victory for interim coach, Samson Siasia, but Mohammed Salah, of AS Roma beat an offside trap a minute before the end of the game to score a valuable equaliser for the North Africans.
And after the game, Capital Oil boss and owner of Ifeanyi Ubah FC rewarded the players with the $5,000 he had promised them for a win and the officials got $3,000 for their efforts too.
Making this confirmation to NAIJ.com was the chairman of Ifeanyi Ubah FC, Chukwuma Ubah, who said: “We are just leaving the Super Sagles camp, where my club president encouraged the players to go to Egypt & win, he also reminded them that they are privileged wear the green white green jersey out of millions of good players in Nigeria.
“He also told them to be very proud to have been called up to represent Nigeria, they should not look at the financial benefits rather they should go for the glory.
“At the end of his visit, he still went ahead to give them $5000 he promised to give them if they win and also gave the technical crew $3000.
“All these are just to encourage the players & he went ahead to also give them $5000 as winning gift ahead of the Egypt match.”
