The management of Help The Talent Football Academy, HTTA, says the product of the academy will be the future of Nigeria’s Super Eagles based on the exposure of its coaches to modern techniques of coaching.
Its Director, Samuel Ojo, made this statement recently after a five- day refresher course for the academy’s coaches at the National Stadium, Surulere where over 10 football coaches participated in the course handled by former Nottingham Forest player, Chelsea FC, Arsenal coach, Chris Mcqinn.
Ojo, who is based in United Kingdom, said the positive reactions of the academy’s football coaches to Mcqinn’s method of teaching, was an indication that the academy’s players would stand out among other football players in the country based on the acquisition of modern coaching techniques which he believed would go a long way to boost their career and also to build a virile football career in the players.
The academy’s priority, according to Ojo, is to be a reference point to other football academies in Nigeria and also to build crop of young football players who in a couple of years would be among top rated football players in the world.
He believed that the course which would help to build a lucrative career in the coaches, was imperative since the knowledge acquired through the course would help the academy coaches to produce one of the Africa’s talented football players who would compete for honors with top football players, adding that some of the academy’s players would soon embark on a training tour of United Kingdom. The academy’s female coach, Chinasa Mandy Ukandu, said the course was one of the best training she attended recently as it has help her to learn new football techniques.
While regarding the exercise as an eye opener, Ukandu, who thanked the management of the academy to feature in the exercise, said it had enable her to understand the need to motivate her players to always be in good form.
