NPFL Lacks the Facilities to Test Players Before Play
Ladan Bosso has expressed his doubt over the possibility of the resumption of the Nigerian Professional Football League (NPFL) campaign. The NPFL season was suspended in March as a result of the coronavirus pandemic breakout which also affected every other areas of life.
Meanwhile, the Bundesliga resumed last month and the La Liga has also resumed with Sevilla hosting Real Betis which ended in favour of the home team Sevilla. The English Premier League is not left out as they are planing June 19th resumption which is just a week from now.
The leagues that have resumed conducted proper test before the players were allowed to train and play matches also, all games are played behind closed doors. There have so far been five rounds of tests conducted on all the players in the English top-flight and that has also been the case in Germany and Spain.
Bosso while speaking to Brila 88.9FM on Wednesday, however, said that he is not sure if the NPFL season can get restarted due to some issues. According to him, he said: “I don’t see how the league in Nigeria will get to restart because these clubs cannot afford to conduct the coronavirus test on their players.”
“These tests are very costly and I think it will cost an amount of #2.5m (Two million and five hundred thousand naira) for each club to test their players.”