Long-Distance Travelling Of Athletes Prior Matches With Its Reported Consequences On Players Performance In Nigeria

Nowadays, players are required to travel both locally and internationally including short distances of less than 3 hours and long distances. The subsequent travel fatigue may result in several consequences. Football leagues all over the world thrive on a lot of travelling by clubs, supporters, spectators and officials. In Nigeria, travelling from the Northern part of the country to the southern part can take as much as eight hours, while a journey from the North to the South lasts sometimes more than 24 hours due to poor road networks of Nigeria roads and other unforeseen circumstances like robbery, traffic congestion and road traffic accident. The incidence of travelling by road transportation with its consequences have remained unabated over time in Nigeria. The situation can be said to be due to several factors such as dearth of funds, poor road network and inconsistency and non-adherence to calendar/time table over the past five football seasons in Nigeria league. It is therefore recommended that players should have adequate rest before and after each match, The government should improve the road infrastructure and league managers committee should have a working calendar for effective date of kick off and end time of each season.