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Dutch Coaches to Train Cowbell Football Academy Managers, Players
A team of five Dutch youth coaches and their managers are billed to hit Lagos this weekend for an eight-day training programme for Cowbell Football Academy coaches and footballers under the initiative of Free-kicks.
Participants will also be drawn from academies such BRF Academy, Team Pepsi and Team Academy Proprietors will make up the balance of 340 players.
Free-kicks is a youth and social engineering initiative on the platform of football by Godwin Dudu-Orumen, lawyer/journalist and a most engaging sports enthusiast.
According to Dudu-Orumen, the coaches will train about 60 local youth coaches and 400 players with about 160 of the latter drawn from the Cowbell Football Academy, promoted by Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Cowbell Milk.
BRF Academy, Team Pepsi and Team Academy Proprietors will make up the balance of 340 players.
Free-kicks will take children off the streets, provide them with direction, pull opportunities together for them, provide the right balance between football and academics for talents, gainfully engage as many children nation-wide year in year out targeting ten thousand participants and beneficiaries in the first three years.
It will also act as a game changer for Nigeria’s football by taking up partnerships with men of goodwill and discerning organisations to heights not encountered before by providing the right intervention at the developmental level through the execution of its programmes.
Free-kicks will grow the game in Nigeria in association with the Lagos State Football Association and SOYA, a Holland based NGO committed to youth football development in Nigeria and driven by Mr. Sylvester Okonkwo, a member of the board of Free-kicks.
Dudu-Orumen said “our inspiration comes from the very convincing words of the living legend Dr. Nelson Mandela who said…Sport has the power to change the world…Sport can create hope and comfort where pain exist.”
He said this belief is reinforced by a popular saying in Nigeria that language identifies us, culture defines us and football unifies us.
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