NPFL experience will help Sporting Lagos in NNL – Biffo

Sporting Lagos FC Head Coach, Abdullahi Biffo, said the experience gathered in the Nigeria Professional Football League would help his club’s anagement, players and coaches in the 2024/2025 Nigeria National League (NNL). ”This will help us to reorganise each department to be able to withstand the pressure of the top-flight league when we return from […]

Sporting Lagos FC Head Coach, Abdullahi Biffo, said the experience gathered in the Nigeria Professional Football League would help his club’s anagement, players and coaches in the 2024/2025 Nigeria National League (NNL).

”This will help us to reorganise each department to be able to withstand the pressure of the top-flight league when we return from relegation.

“We knew we needed to win this match, to give us a chance to escape relegation. But it was a good experience, even though I came into the team just for the last eight games.

”I was assigned by the management to fix the problem on ground, but unfortunately I was unable to do so.

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“We all know that the league’s last quarter is always important because that is when the teams targeting continental tickets double their efforts and teams that want to escape relegation will triple their efforts.”

Speaking on what should be expected of Nigerian club sides next season on the continent, Biffo said something clinical needed to be done.

“We all know that Nigerian teams always find it difficult to do well at the continental stage, because the best players from Nigeria do not really stay in the local league.

“By the time new young players are supposed to come to the national league, they are already elsewhere in Europe. We are only recycling players within clubs in the league.

“The league authorities need to do something about this to develop our league,” he said.