ALL is set for the 2015 edition of football competition for soccer academies in Nigeria. The tournament, Super Six Academies U- 18 features the top youth soccer academies in Nigeria who present their top players. Venue is the National Stadium Surulere, Lagos, from June 16 to 21. The inaugural edition of the tournament in 2014 was won by Kwara Football Academy, Multisports Services Limited, organizers of the tournament said in a statement.
The invitational tournament which will be hosted by Cowbell Football Academy will be witnessed by a crowd of football enthusiasts, local and foreign scouts who are looking for talents which abound in the academies and all over Nigeria, as well as NPL club Owners, Managers, Coaches and the Sports press.
The Cowbell Football Academy started in 2007 as Earlystart Football Academy and today has over 650 boys and girls in three centres in Lagos, Surulere, Ikorodu and Ipaja. The CFA provides a launch pad for youth football with internationally accredited coaches and supervisors and foreign assistance. Reputed to be one of the most organized football academies in Nigeria, the Cowbell Football Academy is owned by Multisports Nigeria Limited, and sponsored by Promasidor Nigeria Ltd makers of Cowbell Milk.
Teams expected to participate in this year’s tournament are Lagos State Academicals, Edo State Academicals (runners up in 2014), SAFA Guys (School boys from Sapele and its environs), Segun Odegbami’s International Sports Academy, Wasimi and hosts Cowbell Football Academy.
Multisports CEO, Barrister Godwin Dudu Orumen, sees it as the perfect setting to mirror the future of Nigeria’s future dominant stars who will take the world by storm. Dudu-Orumen, who is the Tournament Director and a member of its organizing committee (MOC), is sure that the tournament would provide a sustainable structure for the creation of a massive youth empowerment programme for young and aspiring football enthusiasts/talents as well as create new heroes for Nigeria on the platform of Academy Football. Come see Nigeria’s future in football at the second edition of Super Six Academies Football Tournament.
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