Supporters Club back Eagles to lift trophy.

Supporters Club back Eagles to lift trophy.

...Seeks government patronage

The Nigeria Football Supporters Club have expressed optimism that the Super Eagles can bring home the AFCON trophy.

President General of the Club, Dr Rafiu Ladipo stated this while celebrating the team 2-0 win over Algeria last night in marrakech.

Ladipo is thrilled by the Eagles performance and urged the team to go all out for victory against Morocco in the semifinal.

The Supporters boss urged Nigeria to support the team in their quest to lift a fourth AFCON title.

"We are proud of their performance and we are urging them to repeat same performance against Morocco in the semifinal on Wednesday.

"We gave them all the support and we were delighted to see two goals in the second half," he said.

Ladipo is however not happy with lack of patronage from the government to the Supporters Club.

The Federal Government must recognise us .we have been spending our time, resources; financial and kind supporting all the national teams for over 70 years. Players and officials have always been rewarded by the Nigeria government but no one has deem it fit to reward the Nigeria Football Supporters Club.. Our members pull resources together to travel all over the world.

Over 40 of our members are here and we are the ones taking care of feeding, accomodation, transportation etc. Many times we leave the comfort of our homes , brazen cold weather all in a bid to cheer our team to success .Over 70 years of mobilizing our members for national assignment,our efforts are not well appreciated by the government.