Reigning African Queen, Asisat Oshoala has promised to award scholarships to the best talents at the first-ever Asisat Oshoala Lagos State girls secondary schools football clinic, slated for November in Lagos. Oshoala also stated that the five-day event will have scouts from Arsenal, China visit Lagos to train secondary schools girls.
The 5-day education and football clinic tagged “#Lagosgirlsfootball” is endorsed by the Lagos State Sports Commission led by Deji Tinubu , the Lagos state Football Association and its also supported by the office of the First Lady of Lagos state, Bolanle Ambode.
According to Oshoala, the project is part of her effort to develop the game of Women’s football in Lagos.
She said: “The project is my give back program for the society , part of my foundation programme to develop the game of Women’s football in Lagos, Nigeria. When you educate a girl , you have educate a nation , kick out prostitution out of Lagos, kick out early pregnancy on the side of girls , they can play football and still go to school.
Education is not only in the class, kick out badoo in Ikorodu , we need the government to support the huge project, I can’t do it alone, we are doing the project in support of the Lagos Sports Commission and I want to use this medium to commend Deji Tinubu for standing by me and also her excellency Mrs Bolanle Ambode.
About 5000 girls from different secondary schools are expected to take part in the competition. Balls, boots, jerseys, school bags and other educational and sports equipment are to be distributed to all participants.
Asisat promised to make the clinic an annual event while also adding that , she would take the most valuable player from the clinic to either UK or China to study and also play football.
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