NNL’s progress thrills Aluo as pre- season seminar begins

Nigeria National League ( NNL) Chairman, George Aluo, yesterday, expressed happiness with the progress made by the league in the past one year, just as he urged teams listed for the 2024/2025 season to work hard to maintain the high standard.

In his opening speech at this year’s pre-season seminar organised for NNL coaches and media officers, Aluo said the board’s decision to be firm and unbiased in its decisions contributed greatly to a youthful team like Beyond Limits winning the league, while El Kanemi of Maiduguri, apart from winning the President Federation Cup, is one of the only two teams that are currently unbeaten in the ongoing NPFL.

Aluo explained that the seminar became necessary considering the successes recorded in the maiden edition, hoping that what the participants will learn will rob off on the league”.

“You know that in football there are four groups very dear to FIFA, CAF and NFF and those groups are the players and coaches, referees, media and the fans. We bring the coaches here every year to get them better equipped because when the coaches are technically sound, the fans will watch good football.

“The referees, on their part, are the ones with the yam and knife and it’s what they give you in the field of play that you’re going to take. But the referees have laws and we need to be acquainted with those laws which is very dynamic and that was why we brought one of the best brains in refereeing in the country to be part of this seminar.

“There is also no denying the fact that football is a media event and it is the media that hypes the game and make it attractive to the fans and for me as a media person I know that the league will not be attractive without the media and that was why we have brought the