…explains nasarawa united’s ahlan cup victory
BY RAPHAEL EKPANG,ABUJA
The assistant coach of Nasarawa United FC, COACH SUNDAY KESHI said Nigerian referees lived up to expectation last season, noting that the officiating throughout last season was commendable.
The Europe trained COACH KESHI added that if the referees will improve a little bit from last season then 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional Football League NPFL season will be a better one
KESHI in an exclusive interview with sunrisetimes.com noted that the leadership of the Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) led by its president, TADE AZEEZ, have zero tolerance for corruption, which is the reason for the good officiating last season and hoping for a better one when the league commences on November 3rd 2019.
“Last season officiating was okay; the management of the league did very well last season, let me applaud them. This season I believe we are going to see a better officiating since it is going to be a bigger structure,” he said.
However, KESHI said THAT NASARAWA UNITED’S victory at the preseason tournament was as a result of the ability of the team’s technical crew led by COACH BALA NIKYU to turn friendly matches’ defeats to win in Kano.
According to him, the team really prepared well ahead of the AHLAN PRESEASON TOURNAMENT ,adding that they are preparing harder as they approach the commencement of the new season.
“We actually prepared for the preseason; we went to Abuja and played some friendly matches before we stormed Kano for the tournament.
“We lost some matches in Abuja and everybody were blaming us especially my boss, Coach Nikyu the technical adviser of the team but they forgot that when you lose a game you learn from the defeat, that was exactly what Nikyu did and when we stormed Kano, we strategized and applied what we learnt that was why we came out victorious, and we are ready to replicate that when the incoming season begins in a short time,” he stated.
