Says Federation Owes Him Seven Months” Salary and He won’t Keep Quiet Again
The crisis in the Super Falcons camp continued yesterday as the Manager, Randy Waldrum, threw another barb at the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). It would be recalled that the coach in an interview accused the NFF of trying to force some players on him which he rejected leading to the Federation stopping his planned camp while also stopping his assistant from joining him.
The NFF, however, denied the accusations while also calling into question the technical capability of the American. Waldrum has, however, come out in another podcast interview, accusing the Federation of owing him and some of the players as he said he was not going to be keeping quiet again. “Up until about three weeks ago, I was owed 14 months salary, and then they paid seven months,” he said.
“We still have players that haven’t been paid since two years ago when we played the Summer Serries in the USA, it’s a travesty. “I’m not going to be quiet anymore, in October, every country was given $960,000 from FIFA to prepare for the World Cup, Where’s that money? “FIFA allows your staff to have up to 22 people but we only have 11, we don’t have scouts to watch the teams in our group or potential opponents,” he said The coach said he would have left the job but the players were the ones making him to continue.
He added: “I saw the NFF response to my previous comments on the other podcast and it just seemed like a really childish response. “What keeps me going is the players, otherwise, I would have walked away from this job a long time ago.” In a quick reaction, the NFF Communication Direction, Ademola Olajire, tagged the coach the worst coach to have handled the Super Falcons of Nigeria by a country mile.
While calling the coach loud- mouth, Olajire said the ambition of the coach was to add the world cup to his CV. He added: “Incompetent loudmouth, found his voice now since he is about to achieve his only ambition of leading a team at the women’s world cup. “Everyone knows FIFA pays preparation money for every team going to the Women’s World Cup. The team traveled to Japan to play matches, traveled to Mexico for a tournament and traveled to Turkey to play matches.
“The team is presently having a 15-day training camp in Gold Coast ahead of the Women’s World Cup. Is it Mr. Blabber-mouth Waldrum who has been paying? He claims he’s been at the job because of the players, bollocks. “His entire objective has al-ways been to add leading a team at the World Cup to his CV. Worst coach to have handled the Super Falcons of Nigeria by a country mile.”