The Legacy pitch at the National Stadium, Surulere Lagos will come
alive this weekend as “Headmaster” Mutiu Adepoju and Jonathan Akpoborie
storm the Glo Soccer Academy screening centre to work with the academy’s
technical team at the three-day exercise. The exercise starts on today
and ends tomorrow.
The arrival of Mutiu and Jonathan, both former national team players,
at the screening centre would rekindle the optimism in the boys who
will scramble for the five slots at the Lagos centre. In addition,
their visit to the screening centre will evoke some nostalgic feeling
as it would be a re-union with some of their former colleagues at the
national team.
The Glo Soccer Academy Technical Team comprised of Victor Ikpeba,
Tijani Babangida, Anthony Baffoe and Zion Ogunfeyinmi, with Segun
Odegbami as the chief consultant.
The duo are expected to encourage the boys on their planned foray
into soccer as a career, share their personal experiences in age-grade
football as well as their career in both national and international
football. In the same vein, they are expected to put heads together
with the Technical Team to pick the five boys that will be outstanding
during the screening exercise.
The screening exercise in Lagos will close the curtain for the
Nigerian leg of Glo Soccer Academy screening, and the technical team
would beam their search for talents in youth football on the streets of
Benin Republic. Already, 15 youthful players have been selected from
similar exercise in Ghana.
All selected players in Nigeria, Ghana and Benin Republic will be
pruned down to 33 and will be trained by top coaches from West Africa
and Manchester United Football Club. Sixteen finalists will emerge and
go on a training tour of the Manchester United Soccer Schools in
Carrington, England.
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