The president of the Nigeria Soccer Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau, has paid glowing tributes to the Nigeria Pitch Awards, a soccer award platform that has persistently rewarded excellence within the nation’s soccer business.
He gave the remarks on Monday throughout a press convention organised by the organisers of the Nigeria Pitch Awards to thank its school of voters for his or her confidence within the course of.
Gusau, who was represented by NFF director of communications, Ademola Olajire, mentioned the soccer physique will proceed to assist the mission of its integrity and credibility.
“The NFF is given assist to this specific mission due to its transparency, accountability, integrity and credibility of the method all alongside, I can attest to that. The work the SIAO companions are doing is fantastic with only one uniform school of voters yr in yr out and there has by no means been any controversy about it,” Olajiri mentioned.
Earlier, the president of Nigeria Pitch Award, Mr Shina Philips, mentioned the pitch award, from inception was moulded by core values of transparency, credibility and integrity and for 10 years, not one of the award choices have been controversial.
“From inception, our intention was to create an award platform that has a singular character of its personal; a personality moulded by our core values of transparency, credibility and integrity. To attain this, we’ve got adopted a rigorously laid out award course of which brings collectively a school of voters comprising a few of Nigeria’s most knowkledgeable, skilled {and professional} sport journalists and an impartial collation physique.
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“I wish to state that as organisers, we’re very happy with and deeply appreciative of our school of voters which included a lot of you current on this corridor. We owe it to you that within the final ten years of the Nigeria Pitch Award, none of our award choices have been controversial,” Philips mentioned.
He mentioned the Nigeria Pitch Award was designed to survive the founders and squarely put the duty of deciding the winners within the fingers {of professional} journalists with years of expertise, data and experience within the reporting and analysing soccer.
“The award course of is designed to be sustainable in such a manner that it might turn into our era’s legacy to our kids. Because of this the award course of was designed to transient organisers private affect. We’re certain that our school of voters will all the time make the absolute best choices within the curiosity of our soccer.”
Tremendous Eagles ahead, Victor Osimhen, was voted the Striker of the Yr and King of the Pitch for 2024, starves off competitors from teammate, Victor Boniface, Robert Mizo of Bayelsa United and Emeka Obiora of Enyimba Worldwide FC to win the award for third straight yr, making him the primary participant to attain this feat on the platform of the celebrated Nigeria Pitch Awards.
Asisat Oshoala was voted the Queen of the Pitch forward of Rasheedat Ajibade of Atlético de Madrid Femenino and Chiamaka Nnadozi, the Paris FC Goalkeeper.
