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Before you watch today's Super Eagles match against Iceland, read my article and thread about how Iceland's current giant-killing prowess is the product of 20 years of planning and investment by their FA and government. It's not about blaming our players.
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In the mid 90s, when we were shocking the Football World (marginally), Iceland's FA (KSI) decided they did not want to be football nobodies anymore, and devised plans to improve their "national team production pipeline".
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The KSI and Iceland's Government invested money and organizational effort into improving grassroots football. As @SEzekwesili & I previously discussed in our @HNW_BD podcast, Nigeria made no similar investment in the last 20 years.
