S/Eagles Players Thank Okowa For Incentive, Promise To Bring Down Bafana Bafana

Players of Super Eagles have praised Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta for his incentive of $25,000 for every goal in Saturday’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against South Africa.

They, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja admitted the incentive would motivate the senior national male football team to fire from every cylinder.

Stand-in team captain Ahmed Musa responded on behalf of his teammates, saying “we thank Gov. Okowa, so much for the motivation to us to do well in Johannesburg on Saturday.

“We promise that we will return here on Sunday with victory. We will also do all we can to give the people of Asaba and the generality of Delta and Nigerians a very good game against Uganda next Tuesday.”

Pinnick, while responding, said: “We appreciate Okowa for the tremendous support given to the Super Eagles and by extension, the NFF.

“The bill for next Tuesday’s international friendly against Uganda has been underwritten completely by the Delta Government.

“As Okowa said, this state will begin to play a more prominent role in the programmes of the NFF and the Super Eagles.

“I want to commend the Super Eagles Technical Adviser, Gernot Rohr, for assembling a young, professional and very efficient team for now and the future. “We will continue to do all we can to make sure they do Nigeria proud,’’ he said.

(Vanguard)