cheap fifa 16 coins had laid down the qualifying criteria for applicants: show active involvement with the game in any capacity over the last two years; be your country’s candidate (i.e. nominated by your country’s Football Federation, in this instance Nigeria Football Federation – NFF); get sole endorsement of five other countries (i.e. their FF). That’s all.
FIFA prescribes that each country’s FF should (must) be run and funded independent of their governments. But with African countries FIFA looks the other way, giving allowance to the dictum: “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” In Africa, control of their Football Federation is still heavily under their governments’ influence or dictate.
So, it was only logical that the place to begin with Nigeria was to www.fifachampion.com seek the governments backing, state and federal. Fate smiled at Odegbami. At the state level, his Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, not only favoured the goal (a huge one for his state if scored!), he is one of the chummiest with President Muhammadu Buhari since their ANPP days, so taking the matter up with the president, in the absence of a cabinet minister of sports, posed no difficulty.