By Ben Ogbemudia
All forty-six (46) clubs competing in the 2021 Nigeria National League have till Friday 23rd of July to conform with the directives of the world football governing body, FIFA on the CONNECT Registration in the Nigeria Football Federation.

Club secretaries or any other designated club official compulsorily are to forward required information and documents to the Nigeria Football Federation FIFA Connect Office in Abuja.

This is to ensure that the deadline line for the exercise Monday 26th as stipulated by FIFA is met.

The FIFA Connect Project is designed as a registration portal where all football stakeholders, including clubs, players, coaches, referees, and other administrators are registered.

It means that all in Nigeria football are registered in a centralized platform with each having a unique ID to identify him/her throughout their playing career.

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It also enables the tracking of the career history of players and automatically generates player passports during transfers thus ending the constant problem of producing player international players passports at every transfer, among others.

It is obligatory according to the Nigeria Football Federation to register all players in the leagues and at both local, state, and national football leagues.

All-State Football Associations of the NNL clubs are also to take note of this mandatory development and ensure compliance by teams.