Amaju Pinnick Almost Ruined Ese Brume's Career - National Team Coach

Amaju Pinnick Almost Ruined Ese Brume's Career - National Team Coach By Niyi Busari National team coach and statistician, Lekan Soetan has said that the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president, Amaju Pinnick almost ruined the career of Nigeria's Long Jumper, Ese Brume, BSNSports.com.ng can report. Pinnick was particularly delighted at the performance of the multi-talented athlete who won the women’s long jump bronze in the just-concluded 2020 Olympic Games in Japan. “I am happy for Ese (Brume) because I played a role in her discovery and nurturing." The former Delta State FA Chairman claimed. “I am fulfilled at her career progression and I believe she will be there in Paris in three years’ time to win the gold medal,” the FIFA Council member said. Reacting via WhatsApp group (AFN Media Info Channel), Lekan described Pinnick's statement as claiming another man's glory. He added that her coach, Kayode Yaya sacrificed a lot including leaving his family in Nigeria and traveled to Cyprus to save her career when it was dwindling. "Amaju Pinnick almost truncated Ese Brume's dream of becoming world beater." Lekan stated "Once upon a time when Ese just won her first major Continental title as U18, chief Solomon Ogba, the then AFN president planned with Mary Onyali and Amaju Pinnick, the then Delta state sports commissioner (the successor to Ogba) to separate Ese Brume from her coach Kayode Yaya." He recounted. He continued, "They claimed Delta state gave her scholarship to study in the US and at the same time Mary Onyali claimed a school in US gave her scholarship too. "The US embassy refused Brume student visa because they felt some things were not right. How can a state be sponsoring Ese on scholarship in US and a school was at the same time doing so? "The plan by these trio I mentioned was to separate Ese and her coach. "It is only Coach Yaya that can lay claim to have rescued Ese from the snares of the pretenders. Victor Olaniyan gave Ese Brume scholarship to study at Eastern Mediterranean University in Cyprus. Ask Ese she'll confirm this my assertions? "Ese's performance was dwindling while in the Cyprus university and her coach's wife Kesiena, a former top sprinter from Delta state who "Ogbalization" in Delta truncated her career when similar plans by Pinnick were made for her as a youngster advised her husband Yaya to go and live in Cyprus to be able to monitor Ese closely. "Victor Olaniyan a student admission consultant created the opportunity to get Kayode Yaya employed as a school coach in the Cyprus university." He concluded.