I’m the first African to coach a player to Olympics quarter-final -Nasiru

Nasiru

Bello Nasiru (above) is the Chief Coach, Nigerian Table Tennis Federation. He started playing table tennis in 1974 and has now risen to the exalted position of national coach.

When Oseyiza Oogbodo Blog met him at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos, it was during a tournament organized to discover new adolescent players.

Though he was quite busy, he made time to speak, and unsurprisingly, when asked his candid view of table tennis in the country, he defended its honor, declaring that “it’s developing. Why I say so is that we have a male player in the world chart in the world ranking.

“If a country has a good potential player on world ranking, it means that sport is growing up in that country. That we have Haruna Quadri within one to thirty in the whole world means we’re doing very well in Nigeria as far as table tennis sport is concerned.”

He insisted that he’s satisfied with the level of table tennis in Nigeria “because when you go to the world ranking, we’re there. On the continent, Africa, we’re there. We have Haruna and a lot

 of others. In the area of junior championships, we’re there. In the area of junior championships, our players recently took part in Youth Olympics qualifiers in Morocco.

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