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Let’s stop the farce ‘National Sports Festival’

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The Qatar 2022 Football World Cup was unique and outstanding in many ways. It was the first to be held in the Middle East and the Arab world – not in Saudi Arabia or the Emirates but in Qatar, an oil-rich country of about three million people, and what a show they put up. They built state-of-the-art stadia and for a small country that is 11,571 km square, the farthest stadium was 40km from the city centre. Transportation, organisation and security were top-notch and although accommodation was expensive for some, they made adequate arrangements for all classes of visitors.

The Qataris were roundly rewarded with a high-level competition that was breathtaking, exciting, laced with mind-boggling upsets and several records. Argentina, one of the pre-tournament favourites, went from grass to grace . Morocco upset the 2010 world champions, Spain, in the group stages and went on to become the first African country to reach the semifinals.

However, while the entire world was focused on Men’s FIFA World Cup, Nigeria, the ‘oil-poor’ nation, was tucked in one corner holding its National Sports Festival in Asaba, Delta State. The NSF started to go on a downward spiral when some low-performing states ganged up to demand that the NSF become an age group grassroots event in order to discover younger talents. Of course, the underlying objective was to dilute the field and make the underperforming states become a little more competitive.

 

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