Former Green Eagles player and 1980 AFCON winner, Felix Owolabi, has attributed the poor performance of Nigerian athletes at the just-concluded Paris Olympics to the fire brigade approach by officials and athletes.
The country got invited for trials. Today, these facilities are lacking. We’ll harness the potential of our athletes with good trainers and coaches when we have good sports facilities,” he said.
Mr Owolabi also noted that many nations of the world were using sports to drive their economies.
“As a nation, we need to ask ourselves what exactly we want from sports,” he said.