Super Green Football Club of Maryland, United States have made history by becoming the first team to be promoted to the professional American Soccer League, ASL.
The amateur club side, which has a Nigerian head coach and Director of Sports, Richard Opanuga, became one of the nine clubs in the ASL.
The SGFC has won all the titles in amateur leagues and tournaments in the Northeast of America before being drafted by the American Soccer league.
Opanuga said, “Now, players will have that opportunity through our affiliation as a pro team to pursue their dream and we will challenge ourselves to ensure we are developing these players. My first goal is always players development so to enable their careers take them to levels they had dreamed before.”
According to the Director of Team Operations and General Management, Paul Akinrimisi, “It’s simply a dream come true for SGFC Management. We are one of the teams coming out of Washington area to continuously send players to Europe for tryouts and invitational games by top tier teams to further player development simply because the opportunity don’t exist,”
SGFC have however, announced date for the commencement of their tryouts to accommodate new and fresh legs to help the team perform well in the league and positioned them in a strong position.
According to Paulo Campo the Director of Coaching Infrastructure, “We hereby inform all trialists that SGFC Eagles will conduct their tryouts exercise this month March 18th, 2017.
SGFC Eagles will hope to secure the maximum three points when they battle AFC Lancaster Lions at home in their first game on 2nd April, 2017.
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