Lobi Stars technical adviser, Godwin Koko Uwua has told our team that the mid-week matches are not good for the Nigeria football.
Uwua complained of fatigue as the players are not finding it easy with frequent travels to play league games within few days on bad roads.
“We thank God that we won our match against ABS. But I must tell you that the long journey is really affecting how we play our games. Mid-week football is not good for us and not everything you see that you copy. You have to understand that our roads are bad. And we have to travel for league game within three days interval, it is not good at all,” the former Niger Tornadoes coach said to SportingLife.
Uwua, who helped a South Africa club, Free State Stars, gain promotion to the Premier Soccer League in 2007, said any journey that is more than three hours is usually by air in South Africa.
“In South Africa, any journey that is more than three hours is by air. In England where they copy the system, the journey is by air for any match that is more than three hours because of jet lag. We traveled about 12 hours to Ibadan for 3SC game on Sunday and it really affected my team’s performance, and we had to travel to Markurdi the following day to play against Kano Pillars on Wednesday. The following morning, we were on the road for another 13 hours journey to Lagos for MFM game. It is not easy and not good for our football.
The distance covered is not favourable. We are doing something we don’t understand. I had to introduce some small boys that didn’t travel to Lagos against ABS. Tomorrow (Friday) we will be on the road again to Port-Harcourt to play against Rivers United on Sunday. For how long are we going to continue with this?,” Uwua lamented.
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