The Nigeria Football Federation President Amaju Pinnick has said Ahmed Musa will get a N10m reward once he joins the exclusive list of centurions with the national team.
Pinnick made the disclosure after Tuesday’s 2-1 win over the Blue Sharks of Cape Verde.
Pinnick commended the leadership and patriotic nature of Musa even as he added that similar gestures will be extended to those who make it to the 100s club.
On his part, Musa has promised to split into two his expected N10m largesse from the NFF with his teammates.
“Without my teammates, I can not be what I am today, I will be giving N5m to the team from the N10m I am to receive” Musa stated
The NFF via a statement obtained by Roving Naija said it has deferred to FIFA’s own record of 98 caps for Musa, following the nullification of two of the matches he played in which should have made his tally 100.
“We defer to FIFA in this regard, so Ahmed Musa has 98 caps. If he features, as expected, in the home-and-away matches against Central African Republic in October, he will clock the tally of 100 and the celebrations will follow in full flow,” NFF’s Director of Communications, Ademola Olajire, said on Wednesday.
FIFA said on Tuesday that Musa’s appearances in the 3-0 defeat of Togo in a friendly match in Paris in June 2017 and the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 qualifier against Algeria in Constantine in November 2017 did not count.
The match against Togo was struck off as both Nigeria and Togo made more than the regular number of changes in the game, while the encounter in Constantine, which ended 1-1, was deleted because Nigeria fielded an ineligible player and the result was overturned, with Algeria awarded the game, even as Nigeria had already picked the World Cup ticket before the tie.
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