The Nigeria Football Federation may be forced to slash the bonuses of the Super Eagles and all other national teams as a result of the its poor financial position.
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A top official of the federation told Complete Sports that the nation's football governing body has a very lean budget to execute its numerous programmes and the only way out of the financial quagmire is to cut down on expenses or skip some competitions.
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The federation,according to decent sources will be seeking the approval of the executive committee to slash match bonuses of all national teams as well as drastically prune down the list of the technical crews and the backroom staff that seem to be over bloated.
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"The NFF is broke because we did not get what we asked for in our budget proposal and with sponsors not forthcoming, we have to cut down on so many things to be able to execute our programmes for the rest of the year.
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"We proposed a budget of about N7 billion but we got an envelop for about N1.7billion which is a far cry from what we needed to successfully see our programmes through. Take for instance, we never knew we would win the Africa Cup of Nations and represent Africa at the Confederations Cup and we did not capture that in our budget.
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"The only way out is for government to come to our aid with additional funds or we shall be forced to pay $5,000 as winning bonus to the Super Eagles instead of the current $10,000 they earn for a win. The 50 percent slash will also affect other national teams'', our source explained.
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On the pruning of the national teams officials, our very reliable source who is an NFF chietain confirmed that some backroom staff would have to go including some coaches who are considered surplus to requirements.
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We also gathered that the plan is to ensure that none of the national teams has more than three coaches while the backroom staff will be cut down to between five and six for all the national teams.
That would be great boost for the players. Kenya's return leg is a must win for them