Nigeria To Hire Fitness Trainer For World Cup

[Folami David]

A fitness trainer to drill the Super Eagles into fighting shape now Nigeria are to hire a fitness trainer for the World Cup in Brazil, officials have disclosed. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have therefore begun shopping for such a fitness trainer in time for Brazil 2014.
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According to a top source at the NFF, the fitness trainer will work across board with all the national teams.
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"We realised that one of the secrets that saw our U17 team through at the U17 World Cup in UAE was fitness," a top official told MTNFootball.com
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"And as such we want to ensure that all our national teams could play for 120 minutes without wearing out. "You know in Brazil a lot of things would count and it would be survival of the fittest.
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"We don't have a time frame or a preferred nationality of this trainer, we just want the best for the national teams."
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None of the national teams in the country has a fitness trainer. In the 90s, the Eagles drafted members of the armed forces to drill them into full fitness.

[Shola Sholaz]

If that will improve their fitness then it will be a plus for the national team. This is cool

[Nifemi Donald]

That would make our chances better in Brazil because the players need to be fully fit for those World Cup Matches.