Enyimba Football Club of Aba lost 0-1 to Wydad Athletic Club of Casablanca at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo in the brand new African Football League on Sunday, but the attention of Nigerian football fans was focused on the jersey of Innocent Gabriel Okey. It looked like his jersey number was handwritten with chalk.

Very many Nigerians slammed Enyimba on Nairaland, Twitter and Facebook and the club has now provided an explanation for the strange jersey.

According to Enyimba, there was a mix up when Innocent Gabriel was being registered and he was registered with the number 3, instead of 5. He had a perfectly normal printed number 5 jersey, but he couldn't wear it because he was registered as number 3, so they had to quickly create a number 3 jersey for him.

Adepoju Tobi Samuel is a football journalist that covers the Nigerian league.


Adepoju Tobi Samuel 🇳🇬 @OgaNlaMedia

Enyimba's response on the subject matter;

During the registration with CAF, he was registered as number 3 jersey instead of number 5.

It was a costly error from the Team Secretary.

They found out when the match was about to start, and there was no way CAF would allow him to play with the number he wasn't registered with.

Laugh with Ex-International.

https://twitter.com/OgaNlaMedia/status/1716371781437501791

Very many Nigerians had taken to social media to slam Enyimba.

More.

Highlights of the match.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFrN-GNDuSg?si=LMJxJPE3lKsSUiOm

The African Football League is the brainchild of FIFA. FIFA believes that African football can raise a lot of money if the biggest and most popular clubs play in a special league. It believes that this money can then be invested in infrastructure like stadiums and training grounds.

However, critics say that football authorities opposed a super league in Europe, but they are encouraging one in Africa and this is hypocrisy. They say that the AFL will not raise as much money as FIFA thinks and they argue that it might damage already existing competitions like the CAF Champions League and the CAF Confederation Cup.

This is the inaugural edition of the competition.

Imagine
Since the country is not well organize why can't you check b4 the match commence

Silly excuse

Hehehe

I have never seen a thing like this before.

Nothing we no go see for Aba

Even when we were in primary school dem no use hand write name and number for jersey.

They still managed to get an artist to help us do it neatly with paint

Kanu Nwankwo...is this what you can offer as Enyimba Chairman. Papilo you big pass this na.

Nigeria league is becoming one of the worst
League is Africa.... Every kind of evil officiating is possible in the league ..
A league where three straight home corner kick can be awarded as penalty..

This country na only music industry dey work.

Innocent is not Innocent

The excuse is not tenable....Aba boiz go print your name for Jersey on the spot.

Na chalk dem use write am??

Una go explain tire

no b new thing again na,,, shebi dy like anything Aba made.

naptu2:
Enyimba Football Club of Aba lost 0-1 to Wydad Athletic Club of Casablanca at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo in the brand new African Football League on Sunday, but the attention of Nigerian football fans was focused on the jersey of Innocent Gabriel Okey. It looked like his jersey number was handwritten with chalk.

Very many Nigerians slammed Enyimba on Nairaland, Twitter and Facebook and the club has now provided an explanation for the strange jersey.

According to Enyimba, there was a mix up when Innocent Gabriel was being registered and he was registered with the number 3, instead of 5. He had a perfectly normal printed number 5 jersey, but he couldn't wear it because he was registered as number 3, so they had to quickly create a number 3 jersey for him.

Adepoju Tobi Samuel is a football journalist that covers the Nigerian league.


Adepoju Tobi Samuel 🇳🇬 @OgaNlaMedia



https://twitter.com/OgaNlaMedia/status/1716371781437501791

They should have rushed to a printing press and write the number. It can't take more than 30minutes. They can't claim they knew immediately the match started. They thought they could cut corners as per Nigerian mentality!

Nigeria jaga jaga things.

Wana ask?

Are Nigerian Preimier league football jerseys washed after a match or do they get a new jersey every ...

Absolutely Despicable

Una use chalk write am abi una no use chalk write am ?

KiNg0G:
This country na only music industry dey work.

the mistake was from the CAF not club please

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THEY WILL ALWAYS BE GIVING EXCUSES..

NEXT THING,,
ALL THE NUMBERS OF ALL THE PLAYERS WOULD BE HAND-WRITTEN.

The time when then use go buy white marker,for reach them go printing press.. And with their connection,it would have been very easy

Explanation don finish

Why taking the match outside ur fan base? The game lacked home support and it led to defeat. I remember that club during orjizor time.

Sambai65:
the mistake was from the CAF not club please

read the original post again, this time with your brain active.

KiNg0G:
This country na only music industry dey work.

and TRANSPORTATION

Excuses & Explanations as usual.

Whenever you see lapses, know that somebody, somewhere failed in his duties either due to Incompetence or Negligence.

But worst part is nobody takes responsibility to face punishment.
Consequence Management =Zero.

Tobihabeeb:
Why taking the match outside ur fan base? The game lacked home support and it led to defeat. I remember that club during orjizor time.

Because of FIFA and CAF.

FIFA wants this to be a showpiece event and so they want matches to take place in some of the best stadiums on the continent. This is so that they can make money from TV viewers outside the continent.