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• Heartland managed to beat MFM in Lagos with players wearing jerseys without the club’s logo (above), and their names and numbers written with a pen (right)
Published 11 February 2021
Heartland’s campaign in the NPFL has been blighted by financial issues and poor players’ welfare, in sharp contrast to their nickname Naze Millionaires, writes ’TANA AIYEJINA
Nigerian football followers were left bemused December 29, 2020 when reports emerged that Heartland FC, the Owerri-based Nigeria Professional Football League side, were stranded in Katsina, where they had gone to play their opening game of the 2020/21 season against Katsina United a day earlier.
By Amaechi Agbo
The crisis rocking Nigeria Professional Football League, NPFL side, Heartland FC of Owerri has taking a nose dive after the League Management Company wrote the club to remind the management of existing FIFA ruling on registering of new players for the 2020/2021 season. In a letter signed by the LMC Chief Operating Officer, COO, Salifu Abubakar and sent to the Heartland management and made available to our correspondent in which all clubs in the league were copied, LMC made it clear that in view of the existing ban, the club cannot sign or register a new player for the current season.