Re: Africa Football Discussion || Current Topic: World Cup Qualifiers - CAF.
Another Ex Super Eagles Player is on the deaf bed again. Former Super Eagles Defender Kadiri Ikhana is critically ill and hospitalized in Edo Teaching Hospital by a retired Police Officer and the government is nothing about it. He played in the 1980 African Nations Cup and they Won the Cup. But after his retirement, he was neglected. And today he is on the dying bed. On aging he regrets of joining the Super Eagles Team because according to him it was time wasted. "He would have used the time to something else"
It's sad to see another football veteran suffering after serving his fatherland. Nigeria doesn't have a good welfare system for ex-football internationals, so it's not strange to see Kadiri Ikhana in this condition. I might be wrong, but I think Kadiri became a coach for different clubs in the Nigerian Premier League and even coached the Nigerian national team ( not the Super Eagles). This is a lesson to other players that they should plan for the future. Having a health insurance policy and other financial covers are important because Nigeria is not getting better. This might be the reason why Nigerians prefer to naturalize in other countries.