Nigeria’s former youth prodigy Femi Opabunmi has declared that he will stop any of his kids who goes into professional football from representing Nigeria.

The former Golden Eaglets and Super Eagles forward has been battling with a niggling eye defect and is reported to be bankrupt.

Opabunmi says the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) did cast a blind eye while he was wallowing in the nadir of his career.Having felt so undone, he now even feels so reluctant to watch football matches being played by the national team.

“It is a bad story. Sometimes I don’t want to watch Nigerian football because any day I want to do so, I cry,” Opabunmi said on a live radio programme on Top Radio on Friday.

“I don’t know if the NFF will help me now. I needed their assistance. I will like my children to play professional football in future, but I will not allow them to play for this country.

“My experience brings me bad memories. I will rather encourage them to take up nationalities of other countries and play international football elsewhere.

“I believe in God. If He says they (NFF) will do something for me, they will, and if they can’t, there’s nothing we can do.”

Opabunmi also denied that he was cursed by the lady he had promised to marry after he ended up jilting her.

 “Its not true (that I was cursed). I promised someone that I would marry her but I’m not perfect because I’m a human being,” he explained.