Former Nigeria top performer, Dolphins Football Club of Port Harcourt current state of performance in the Nigeria professional football league has caused concern for stakeholders and followers of football in the state.
Information available to The Newswriter sports desk from the teams camp has it that Coach Eguma has greater percentage of blame to bear, as to why the club is not improving in its performance.
According to some of the players who are bench warmers, who are not registered this season, player manager or God father do have understanding with the coach to register unqualified players for the purpose of marketing such players to foreign clubsides.
They alleged that some of the managers or representatives of the unqualified players will entered into an agreement with the head coach so as to play their unqualified player so that the clip would be send to foreign clubs with the idea or motive that the player had played under Dolphins.
A particular player disclosed that he was signed last season but never given the opportunity to feature for a single match, adding that he was even blackmailed as a bad player, till former team manager, Dumbor Awanen saw him played. According to the player, that singular training Dumbor Awanen watched changed the whole story about him.
He stated that Dumbor Awanen called him and said, “so you are such a good player warming Dolphins bench, I was told you are a bad player, boy you are too good to be on Dolphins warming bench.
Though, Awanen promised to see the then commissioner for sports as to play the player on regular basis.
Revealing further the player said, the moment Dumbor Awanen disclosed his issue with the commissioner, Hon. Fred Igwe, something ugly happened to Dumbor as all sort of allegations were leveled on him and he was finally sacked.
Further information has it that some players are on the verge of leaving the club because of this development. ###
