Late Sam Ibiam, Nigeria’s first goalkeeper Chukwuemeka Ibiam, 61, first son of the deceased Nigeria’s first goalkeeper, Sam Ibiam, says it is regrettable that no official of the ministry of Youth and Sports attended his late father’s funeral. “Officials of Nigeria’s Sports Ministry and the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) were absent during the burial of the national team’s very first goalkeeper, late Sam Ibiam, on Saturday. “The poor treatment meted to ex-footballers who sacrificed much for Nigeria has made the `present-day’ players not be committed while playing for the country,” he said. Ibiam told NAN on Monday in Unwana, Afikpo
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