NFF announce plans to build 68-room players’ hostel and training pitches for national teams

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have announced plans to build a players’ hostel and two training pitches for the national teams close to the Moshood Abiola National Stadium.

NFF also announced that the Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas GCON will do the groundbreaking of the facility in a statement published on the official Instagram page of the football body.

The construction of the project will last at least 24 months and is funded by the world football-governing Body, FIFA through its Forward 3.0 program.

According to the statement, the facility will have one natural grass pitch and the other synthetic. The existing synthetic pitch will also be re-constructed.

Read the full statement below.

The Ibrahim Musa Gusau-led NFF administration will add another milestone on Tuesday when the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of Players’ Hostel and a number of new training pitches holds in Abuja. The groundbreaking will be done by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas GCON.

Named the NFF-FIFA Players’ Hostel, the 68-room facility is located at the heart of Package B of the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, almost directly opposite the NFF Secretariat. It is a two-wing edifice, with A and B sections, and has a total of 62 single rooms, four suites and two executive suites.

Alongside the hostel is the construction of two new training pitches (one synthetic and one natural grass), re-construction of the existing synthetic pitch, sitting terraces for spectators, two dressing rooms for players (each accommodating 27 players at a time) and two dressing rooms for officials. The spectators’ terraces will have 1,838 seats.

The construction, which is projected to last 24 months, is funded by world football-governing body, FIFA through its FIFA Forward 3.0 program.

The FIFA Forward is the largest and biggest sport development program in the world, and was created in 2016 when FIFA President Gianni Infantino was first elected to office. The core idea is three-fold: increase the investment into football worldwide; achieve more impact with specific and tailor-made projects and; make sure to have more oversight to ensure that the investment in football development is transparent, carefully-managed and effective.

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