The Nigerian Judo Federation has declared plans to stage a national
junior judo championship in Abuja as part of efforts to discover more talents
for the country.
President of the Federation, Musa Osodi, who disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, said the
championship has been tentatively fixed for October this year.
Osodi, who said the coming event was key to the judo federation, explained that
grooming of budding talents to take over from the aging ones would form the
priority of any good administration that wishes to develop the game.
While commending the choice the Director General of the National Sports Commission,
Al-Hassan
Yakmut, Mr Osodi said there was need to begin to appoint professionals
to administer the various sports federations in the country.
“Nigeria should begin to elect or appoint professionals in certain areas just
like the ex-President did recently by doing away with politicians to appoint
Al-Hasan Yakmut, This should be replicated at all levels of Nigeria’s sports
administration.
We should not continue to discriminate even when we are still
learning from the foreign countries like Japan and Korea in the game because
these countries build their sports industries on expertise,” Osodi stated.
He blamed Nigeria’s wavering fortunes in sports on the attitude of sports
administrators, who indulge in the use and encircling of old and worn out
athletes that have nothing to offer.
“What we see here is a re-circling of old athletes, who have been there since
2008 and have not won any international championships with no international
ratings. They keep on re-circling them and we are tired of them.
“What we are about to do now is to adopt a system where the retiring judokas
will be given the opportunity to administer the game and impart knowledge into
the upcoming ones,” he concluded.
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