By Kate Obodo
Former Shooting Stars Sports Club coach Adegboye Onigbinde is not a happy man. His state of mind  emanates from the structure of the Nigeria Premier League which he said was poorly managed.

According to him, the league would have grown stronger if the  administrative heads developed players from the grassroots  to replace old players . He said if they (NFA) had  adhered to his advice  in  developing a junior team after their senior teams, it would not have been difficult to put together a solid team.

“As far as I am concerned we do not  have a league in this country. We are just joking. In 1983 I recommended to the  NFA that each club in division one  should have a Junior team and develop them for future purposes this  will enable them produce young talents  to replace the old ones. It was entrenched in the rules but no body followed the rules until now.

That was when our problem started. I also adviced that every club should have a technical department that will  produce or develop talents. But the problem I had then was  that one of the club proprietors turned me down.

He said they don’t have the money to run the senior team  I am talking of, not to talk of developing a  junior team for each club.

I told them then that their decision was penny wise pounce foolish.