Taribo West writes off NPFL

Former Super Eagles defender Taribo West has written off our premier football league popularly called NPFL,In an extensive interview with Punch Newspapers West said“ Look at our domestic league, there is nothing in the league but during our time you could go to the stadium and see a lot of foreign players from Cameroon, Ghana coming to play in the league. We also had foreign coaches from Brazil and Yugoslavia who were around. How many of them do we have now? The ones that managed to come went back.

“They killed everything in the system and everywhere you want to play in Nigeria now, you have to bribe the coaches, national team you have to bribe the coaches. What kind of system is that? If tomorrow I have a young boy who is good to play for the country, Nigerians will not see the good legs because you have to bribe your way into the national teams. They will pick coaches from somewhere because somebody is giving them handouts.

Asked if he is speaking based on hearsay or beer parlor gossip, West said,

“I know and I have evidence. It is a known thing and some of the coaches are even proud of it and boast about it. They brought some few coaches that took bribes and even suspended them for it. There were confirmations of payment, though I don’t want to call any names but there is evidence. Some players have the ability but they don’t have godfathers, when the time is right I will expose all of them”