{"id":3344,"date":"2014-12-01T08:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T08:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2014-12-01T08:27:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T08:27:54","slug":"politics-destroying-nigerian-football-akpoborie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"Politics destroying Nigerian football \u2013 Akpoborie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3345\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3345\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Agkpoborore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3345\" alt=\"Akpoborie\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Agkpoborore-300x182.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Agkpoborore-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Agkpoborore.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Akpoborie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">With the Nigeria Football Federation seemingly being handicapped to take any decisive action on out-of-contract Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi, former Super Eagles striker Jonathan Akpoborie has reacted to the development, saying the NFF may have been the reason for their own problems.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p>Akpoborie says he doesn\u2019t feel sorry for the NFF, believing the way they came into office may have contributed to them being handicapped as it seems, adding they will have to deal with the problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say I want to be sorry for the guys at the NFF because in getting into office, they used the political power that they have to get into the office, so it is something they have to deal with,\u201d Akpoborie said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Wolfsburg of Germany striker also points out politics as one of the reasons for the problems that is currently plaguing Nigerian football, adding that politics will have to be separated from football just like it\u2019s done in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we draw up a football plan, you see politics coming to disrupt these plans and we have to understand that politics is destroying Nigerian football. We have to separate football from politics, just like it is done in Europe,\u201d Akpoborie stated.<\/p>\n<p>Source:http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Nigeria Football Federation seemingly being handicapped to take any decisive action on out-of-contract Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi, former Super Eagles striker Jonathan Akpoborie has reacted to the development, saying the NFF may have been the reason for their own problems. Akpoborie says he doesn\u2019t feel sorry for the NFF, believing the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Agkpoborore.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-RW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}