1.0Mathematical 7https://mathematical7.com/m7rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="spGvI6BV6V"><a href="https://mathematical7.com/m7/random-thoughts-on-football-associations/">Random thoughts on football associations!</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://mathematical7.com/m7/random-thoughts-on-football-associations/embed/#?secret=spGvI6BV6V" width="600" height="338" title="“Random thoughts on football associations!” — Mathematical 7" data-secret="spGvI6BV6V" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Football_Field_3.jpg864486There are several things on my mind drawn from my piece last week. Reluctantly, but very importantly, I return to the issue of State Sports Associations and their place in the structure of Nigerian sports administration. I use the State football associations only as a reference. What concerns them is replicated in every other sports association. The States football associations presently wield enormous powers that they are not entitled to. They presently occupy a place in national football administration that they should not in the correct architecture of football administration. They are an administrative body comprising all the members of the football family in their States. They organise programmes for their members within their States. They are not apart from the members that make them up in their States. The leadership of their members in their States make up the National Football Federation. The State Football Association is not, therefore, a body different and separate from the Clubs, Referees, Coaches, leagues, etc that constitute them. The Chairman of the State football association is drawn from one of members. These members constitute the National Federation. The work and place of State football associations are limited to their States. They organise and supervise their members - Referees, coaches, schools sports, various leagues, etc. There is not a separate entity called the State Football Association. It has no business as a State football association to be an individual member of the National Federation when its members are already members of the national federation. It is duplicity, pure and simple. Allocating to state football associations a seat on the membership of national federation can only be justified by the politics involved in electing the Chairman/President, and accepting the consequences. Once again, a critical look, reveals that State FA’s are the same people as the Club owners, the leagues, the referees, the coaches, and so on, that constitute the National Federation, in a new and disguised garb. That’s why, even when politics were injected into the system at a time, and a relevance was created for the body of State football association Chairmen, only one seat was allocated to the ‘Chairman of State FA Chairmen’. Now, there are 37 seats! How? Where from? It is a multiplication when the State associations are regarded as individual members. I concede that all of this requires careful examination for better understanding of the structures and where the error was made to individuate State Associations.