Warri: Budding football talents from Awgu/Aninri/Oji River Federal Constituency are currently in Warri, Delta State as part of an ongoing grassroot football Talent hunt courtesy of Rt. Hon Toby Okechukwu, Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and Member representating Awgu/Aninri/Oji River Federal Constituency in the Green Chambers.
Rt. Hon. Okechukwu, a darling of the youths owing to his youth oriented programs is promoting the football Talent hunt as a means of encouragement and Inspiration to the youths of his constituency. This is to urge them to do better, to carve meaningful career niche in their lives.
Recall, that Okechukwu had in the recent past, sponsored a musical talent hunt show, ENUGU GOT TALENT, hosted and Organised by UGAMATV in collaboration with CENTURY records.
In a bid to gather the football talents, experienced coaches, have travelled to specific local football pitches, to scrutinize and recruit raw talents, while they were in action.
The talents were quite unsuspecting of the gesture. The goal is to catch them whilst they weren’t expecting it, it was such a natural recruitment.
The football Talent Scouting company was at UPE Primary School, Oji River last Saturday 24th April 2021, also they went to Diamond Field Awgu on 25th April.
After the scouting and recruitment, the talents were camped for days at NSDC Academy at Adu Achi, Oji River for adequate and professional training, pending their match with the Warri team.
The talents recruited was enough to make two teams for the GREATER AWGU FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION (GAFA).
In appreciation to this Gesture, the coordinators and executives of the teams, lauded the Lawmaker as well as every other well meaning Governmental and non-government personalities that has contributed to the journey so far, while asking for more encouragement from other persons.
Reports shows that the first team played to the best of their current abilities, but lost to Effurun Warri team. This is because disallowed the team’s first goal. It ended in two to one (2-1).
However, the match between Team B Greater Awgu and Team Warri ended in a one nil in favour of the Greater Awgu lads.
Courtesy: Ugamatv
