AfriSportPro engages Lagos FA to boost grassroots football
In a picture to deepen its grassroots soccer impression across Nigeria, AfriSportPro Restricted, organisers of the AfriSportPro Formative years League, has opened discussions with the Lagos Stutter Football Affiliation (Lagos FA) to contain the narrate within the league’s inaugural season.
The Founder and CEO of AfriSportPro Restricted, Chukwuebuka Ugwu, one day of a visit to the Lagos FA board, chaired by Hajji Liameed Gafar, assured that extra states can be integrated because the league scales up after its inaugural season.
Ugwu, who also serves because the Chairman of the AfriSportPro Formative years League Advisory Board, explained that the AfriSportPro Formative years League will birth with six pilot states, representing Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones. Currently, 5 states were confirmed across diversified areas.
Ugwu stated: “Our visit to the Lagos FA became section of our engagement with the South West states to contain one narrate in our first six pilot states. We imagine Lagos is the fine soccer hub in Nigeria and a mannequin of soccer administration, so we identified the narrate as our first point of contact within the region to affix our inaugural season.
“We had tried to gain this meeting since the starting up of the year and we in the end bought the meeting. It became a in actual fact productive meeting, one day of which we talked about the narrate of Nigerian soccer fundamentally, as well to the concerns our league goals to address in Nigerian soccer, particularly on the grassroots stage.
“The Lagos FA became contented and smitten by our idea, and they imagine Nigeria is ripe for our idea to be implemented. The Lagos FA has also proven curiosity in joining our league, pending additional discussions with them.
We bought a mode of large recommendation and encouragement from the FA, particularly from the Chairman, Hajji Gafar.”
In accordance to him, while Lagos FA did no longer directly endorse the league, the board confirmed eager curiosity and requested additional dialogue sooner than making a final decision.
“We are also in dialogue with diversified South West states. So, this will doubtless perchance perchance moreover be a case of first approach, first served for this inaugural season as we glimpse to admit the foremost narrate to ready its building for the league. As we magnify, we can decide in additional states from all zones.”
In his remarks, Gafar commended the AfriSportPro initiative, describing it as timely and linked.
Gafar stated, “Thank you for embarking on a mission to toughen Nigerian grassroots soccer. Your idea is a big initiative, and the Lagos Stutter FA will vote to sanction the league within the narrate if the narrate FAs’ questions are clearly addressed within the following discussions.”
