advertisementFormer Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick has argued that the Super Eagles would have secured qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup if he were still overseeing Nigerian football. Amaju Pinnick, who served as NFF president from October 2014 to October 2022, steered Nigeria to the 2018 World Cup in Russia. However, his tenure also included the painful failure to reach the 2022 finals in Qatar following a playoff loss to Ghana. “I didn’t see it coming because 10 teams from Africa will qualify,” Pinnick said. Story continues below advertisement“We didn’t win, but we didn’t lose; we were knocked out by the away goals rule,” he said.