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Amosun’s Wife Celebrates Golden Eaglets Number One Goalkeeper

By Editor
23 October 2015   |   11:05 pm
Mrs. Olufunso Amosun is one of the happiest governors’ wives in Nigeria right now. Reason: A product of her pet project, UPLIFTing Under-15 Grassroots Football Talent Hunt is making waves in far away Chile, venue of the on-going FIFA U-17 World Cup. Akpan Udoh was one of the players of the UPLIFT Football Team sponsored…
Olufunso Amosun. Photo; twitter

Olufunso Amosun. Photo; twitter

Mrs. Olufunso Amosun is one of the happiest governors’ wives in Nigeria right now. Reason: A product of her pet project, UPLIFTing Under-15 Grassroots

Football Talent Hunt is making waves in far away Chile, venue of the on-going FIFA U-17 World Cup. Akpan Udoh was one of the players of the UPLIFT Football Team sponsored on a soccer training tour of the Udinese Football Club in Italy by the Mrs. Amosun in 2013.

Udoh, who is Nigeria’s number one goalkeeper at the ongoing tournament, was one of the 22 young football players discovered by Mrs. Amosun’s football talent hunt programme in 2013.

The UPLIFTing Under-15 Grassroots Football Talent-hunt was organised by Mrs. Amosun during the 2013 Easter holiday amongst all public secondary school students in Ogun State.

For the whole duration of the training, elimination and selection process, the competition had in attendance the likes of Mr. Jim Colston, a renowned scout for the English Premiership League in the United Kingdom and Nigeria’s celebrated former international, Chief Olusegun Odegbami, as well as Football Ambassador, Mr. John Fashanu.

Talents discovered at the competition were then sponsored by the UPLIFT Development Foundation to Udinese Football Club, Italy, for a two-week training camp.

While some of the other UPLIFT football players have joined various football academies to improve on their skills, others have been featuring in different local football competitions to showcase their talents.

Born on July, 1999, Akpan Udoh a student of Akesan Community High School in Iperu Remo in Ogun State, at the time of discovery, now displays sterling performances.

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