NFF bows to FIFA on Ahmed Musa’s ‘100 caps’

The Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday said it has deferred to FIFA’s own record of 98 caps for Super Eagles’ captain Ahmed Musa. Before the clarification from FIFA, it was widely believed that the Super Eagles captain had amassed 99 caps. Therefore, immediately after Tuesday’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cape Verde in Mindelo Musa […]

The Nigeria Football Federation on Wednesday said it has deferred to FIFA’s own record of 98 caps for Super Eagles’ captain Ahmed Musa.

Before the clarification from FIFA, it was widely believed that the Super Eagles captain had amassed 99 caps.

Therefore, immediately after Tuesday’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Cape Verde in Mindelo Musa was celebrated as the third player to have bagged 100 caps

The president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick was so elated that he promised the Super Eagles captain a cash reward of N10m.

The captain in turn promised to donate half of the amount to his teammates in the national team.

However, the world football governing body came out to say Musa was still on 98 caps.

FIFA explained that Musa’s appearances in the 3-0 defeat of Togo in a friendly match in Paris in June 2017 and the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 qualifier against Algeria in Constantine in November 2017 did not count.

Responding, NFF’s Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire said “We defer to FIFA in this regard, so Ahmed Musa has 98 caps.

“If he features, as expected, in the home-and-away matches against Central African Republic in October, he will clock the tally of 100 and the celebrations will follow in full flow.”