Crayon during a recent interview also said the incident contributed to why he got depressed in 2015
By Kehinde Okeowo
Popular Afrobeats singer, Charles Chibuezechukwu, better known as Crayon, has accused some top officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) of truncating his football career.
The ‘Overloading’ crooner made this known during a recent interview with Cool FM in Lagos.
According to Crayon, he was one of those selected into one of the national youth teams in 2015, but he was later dropped by some corrupt officials.
He went on to claim that the NFF officials dropped him for someone from a wealthy background, adding that the incident contributed to why he got depressed in 2015.
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Speaking during the chat, Crayon said: “I became depressed in 2015 because I couldn’t get into the university. All my friends were in school. At that time I was really close to my friends. I was the youngest among my friends. Every time they are around is always fun. Then they all got admitted to the universities in Ghana, Benin, etc. It was just me in the hood.
“It was so boring. I didn’t have anything to do, nowhere to go. And my footballing career at that time wasn’t really kicking off for me as well. I used to play football. I used to be a proper footballer. They called me ‘Coutinho’ in my hood. You know prime Coutinho who played for Liverpool?
“I tried to become a professional footballer but it didn’t work out for me because football in Nigeria is quite dicey. There is a lot of corruption. I don’t want to mention names because it might hurt some people. They are big names; top [football] officials.
“At a time I went for one screening in Surulere [National Stadium], they [NFF officials] picked me and they had to like swindle me and pick someone else because the person had money and connections. So, at that point, I became disappointed. I went home depressed.”
