Empower youths through sports, Ekong charges stakeholders

Tremendous Eagles Captain, William Troost-Ekong, has urged governments in any respect ranges, to boot to all stakeholders to make expend of sports to raise society.
Per Ekong, a collaboration of governments and the inner most sector can aid arrangement a exact and economically exact childhood population, including that Nigeria’s super childhood population is ample to rob the nation out of poverty if properly harnessed.

Talking one day of his foundation’s (William Troost-Ekong Foundation) charity game at the Mobolaji Johnson Enviornment, Onikan, Lagos, on Sunday, the Tremendous Eagles skipper affirmed that the nation is blessed with all the issues it needs to turn into a superpower in a lot of how.

“There may maybe be so worthy vitality in sports and we're attempting to harness it for the muse. My foundation is about creating football gamers; allowing children to dream and arrangement bigger and better issues with their abilities,” he acknowledged.

On the super enhance for his foundation’s force for charity, Ekong acknowledged: “I will bear never imagined having a charity game on this scale…  I am at ease with the total Nigerians that bear attain collectively for a sexy factor.

“Now, we now bear seen the edifying of football artistry from the edifying footballers in Africa and after all, to an extent, across the enviornment. After this, we are going to expend the money raised here to aid people.

“The football is the glamorous facet, when we accumulate to Uyo this week, we are going to meet with the total individuals who need our intervention of their lives.”

The 2d William Troost-Ekong Foundation’s charity game, tagged “Play for Cause,” featured many Tremendous Eagles stars including Victor Osimhen, Wilfred Ndidi, Victor Boniface, Stanley Nwabali, Odion Ighalo, Raphael Onyedika, Frank Onyeka, Obafemi Martins and Ahmed Musa, among others.

Old World Heavyweight Boxing champion, Anthony Joshua, also participated within the event alongside such artistes as Odumodu, Sabinus, AY, Bovi, Ebuka, Mayorkun, Shaggy, and Zlatan, among others.