NFF President To Meet With Mourinho, Pellegrini

After meeting with Arsenal FC manager, Arsene Wenger, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) President, Amaju Pinnick has further big plans.

According to Vanguard, Pinnick disclosed that he would come back to England next month to meet with the Chelsea's boss Jose Mourinho and Manchester City's manager Manuel Pellegrini.

Apart from that, the NFF head narrated about his recent appointment with Wenger and its outcome.

"I have heard of people saying why should I go and visit somebody like Arsene Wenger, the beauty of it is not quantifiable and in the next couple of weeks I will also be meeting with Mourinho and Pellegrini. The other time we wanted to call Iheanacho and we heard issues about the coach and all that but if I have a relationship with the coach it will just take a phone call.

“I spent about two hours with Arsene Wenger and he assured us clearly that he wants Chuba Akpom, Iweobi and Semi Ajayi to play for their country. Talking about Iweobi, many people did not know how he came to Nigeria. It I is very difficult for people to come down from England and play for Nigeria looking at the terrain but by God’s grace we have gone beyond that."

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Pinnick noted that the meeting with Wenger was very fruitful and allowed him to learn a lot of useful things:

"Honestly, the trip was very rewarding because personally I learnt from the Professor Wenger who brought a sheet of paper and was teaching me about administration, it is always good to learn from the best and he will take our technical study group for two sessions. He has equally agreed for any of our senior coaches to come for training and that is the reward of that visit."