PLAYERS of the national U-23 football side, the Dream Team are currently distraught following the claim that they don’t know what has become of the cash donation made to them at the Rio Olympics.
Japanese surgeon, Katsuya Takasu made a donation of $390,000 to the players and officials of the Dream Team following their bronze medal effort at the last Olympic Games.
Takasu presented two cheques for $190,000 and $200,000, totalling $390,000, to be shared among players and officials of the Nigerian U-23 team.
Last Saturday, Tribunesport had reported that the sharing formula to be adopted had become an issue among players and officials.
And today, the latest is that the players are agitated as they claim they are in the dark as to what has become of the money.
Following this, the players have been making frantic calls to those they believe can really furnish them with details of the largesse.
SaturdayTribunesport authoritatively gathered during the week that calls were being targeted at three influential members of the team (names withheld) but with little or no detail emanating from such calls.
Two out of these three highly placed persons, SaturdayTribunesport gathered, are currently out of Nigeria with the calls to their lines unanswered or unreplied.
The third person who is in Nigeria has been a listening ear but with little or nothing he can do about their plight.
SaturdayTribunesport was able to get one of the Dream Team players to talk, albeit under anonymity before filing this story and he confirmed this development.
“Bros, na wa o, we have not heard anything about the money o and I am seriously broke now. My mates too have been complaining,” the player said SaturdayTribunesport on phone on Friday.
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