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Top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation visited the Euro-Africa headquarters of sports kit manufacturing behemoth, NIKE in Amsterdam, Netherlands on Friday.
Discussions centred around the support that the bodywear and footwear giant has been providing for the national teams of Nigeria since its latest partnership with the NFF, and assurance by the football-governing body that it will put measures in place to ensure that NIKE nets even more leverage and exposure from the partnership.
President of NFF, Ibrahim Gusau and the General Secretary, Mohammed Sanusi met with NIKE’s chieftains at the company’s Amsterdam headquarters, with Uwe Gartner, who replaced Tina Salminen as Sports Marketing Director (Africa), also present.
Both teams discussed the various assignments of the national teams of Nigeria this year, including the Super Falcons’ participation in the Women’s World Cup finals; the Super Eagles’ 2023 AFCON qualifying matches; Olympic Eagles’ U-23 AFCON qualifying matches and tournament proper, the Flying Eagles’ U-20 AFCON participation and probable outing at the U-20 World Cup in Indonesia and the Golden Eaglets’ U-17 AFCON participation in Algeria and probable outing at the U-17 World Cup in Peru.
It would be recalled that NIKE returned as Nigeria’s official kit sponsors in April 2015, following the departure of German behemoth Adidas. The partnership agreement was signed in London, and has been renewed a couple of times since then.