It was fun and pomp at the Campos Mini Stadium on Lagos Island from Wednesday through Friday this week when the 2019 edition of Asisat Oshoala’s Football4Girls Project was held.
The Football4Girls Clinic is the former African Women Football of the Year award winner’s own way of giving back to the society through her Asisat Oshoala Foundation. Ably supported by Rev (Mother) Esther Ajayi, the General Overseer of Love of Christ Church in Clapham, London through her Esther Ajayi Foundation since the first edition, the fifth edition, which first session was concluded on Friday was crowd puller as young schools girls who aspire to make a career in the round leather game from all over Nigeria and some West African countries such as Ghana and Benin Republic stormed Lagos to be part of the event, which afforded them the golden opportunity of learning some basics rudiments of football from the experts.
P.M. EXPRESS reports that football academies from Lagos and clubs within the metropolis as well as clubs from Abuja took larger numbers in the attendance. Also 15 players came from Ghana and Benin Republic.
No fewer than 100 school girls were however discovered at the end of the first session which came to a close on Friday with the second session scheduled to hold on 22 December, 2019.
Organisers informed that the players will now regroup for the second session which will be wrapped up on Christmas Eve at the end of which three outstanding players will now be selected for awards and scholarships.
The Asisat Oshoala football4girls Africa project is sanctioned by the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), the Lagos State Sports Commission and the Lagos State Football Association.
The foundation has also partnered with Blaugrana Sports, the official licensee of Barca Lagos Academy for technical support ahead of the 2019 football clinic for girls in Lagos.
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