Dream Team risks expulsion from Rio as FIFA hammer looms

As Nigerians come to grips with the ouster of the Super Eagles from the African Cup of Nations holding in Gabon next year, more misery and pain await soccer fans as Samson Siasia’s Dream Team(U-23) may be excluded from the draws of the football event of the Rio Olympic Games which holds on Thursday at the Maracana Stadium, Brazil. Following the annoying rumbles from the court in Jos that sent dangerous signals to the world that Nigerian football is engulfed in confusion, FIFA, Sports Vanguard gathered yesterday, may be breathing down on Nigeria for taking its case to ordinary courts. FIFA frowns against taking football matters to law courts for the resolution of football matters. File photo; CHAMPIONS… Victorious CAF U-23, AFCON Champions, Nigeria’s Dream Team celebrate after defeating Algeria in the final, Saturday night. A very senior Nigerian football stakeholder informed us yesterday that the World soccer-ruling body would make its stand known on the Nigerian crisis today. ‘’The court case sacking NFF President, Melvin Amaju Pinnick happened late on Friday and they(FIFA) don’t work at the weekend. Definitely, tomorrow(today) you will be hearing from them’’, our source said. The source regretted that the U-23 team would be excluded from the draws as well as the senior national team, the Super Falcons from the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations in Cameroun which begins on November 19 and end on December 3. “It’s going to be the beginning of more misery for soccer fans as everything related to football in Nigeria will be clamped by FIFA’’, the source regretted. Also, former Scribe of NFF Sani Ahmed Toro warned yesterday that the court ruling in Jos was a violation of article 68 of FIFA Statutes. ‘’FIFA will definitely hammer us by invoking articles 14 and 70 of their statutes’’, the former House of Representative member said.

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