kasynlives:
Former Super Eagles striker and English Premiership striker Victor Anichebe, says he is willing to partner with Anambra Government to provide synthetic pitches in schools in the state.

Anichebe made the appeal at the final of his maiden grassroots football championship for youths in Anambra, held at Nri Boys High School in Anaocha Local Government Area on Sunday.

He said that he hoped to achieve the development of youths through his “Own Goal Project’’.

The player, who made his mark at Everton FC of England, said there were lots of talents that were not in an environment that could help to develop their talents.

“I just think it is important to support the youth, I am where I am because of the support of some other people.

“And it is for me and other people that played the game as well as the government to give the youth the necessary lift.

“I plan to partner with the state government to do more things like this with my “Own Goal Project’’ and application that can be used to showcase the talents of these young ones across the world.

“The quality of play is good, it could be better; the field is not the best and hopefully with the collaboration of the government I can help bring better pitches to my state,’’ he said.

“I intend to put a synthetic pitch here and that is the way forward for youth football in Nigeria, we need the pitch because it serves in all weather.

“Let us be honest to ourselves, if we want to be a strong nation in youth football, we can’t continue to play on pitches like this.

“In England, we have parks that have great pitches, these youths need to go and train, they need better facilities and that is what government should do for them in addition to what we are doing.’’

Anichebe appealed to governments in the country to provide basic facilities to effectively harness young talents at the grassroots.

He also urged the Anambra Government to reinvigorate school age sports through greater collaboration between the ministries of sports and education.

The Chairman, Local Organising Committee for the competition, Anthony Ugorji, noted that improving on the sports facilities in schools would make them to become centres of both academic and sporting excellence.

“We must return to the schools and grassroots to rediscover our glory in sports as a nation.

“We must thank Gov. Willie Obiano for his interest and impressive record in youth empowerment.

“We also urge the governor to ensure synergy between the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Sports for effective sports development in primary and secondary schools,’’ he said.

He expressed the hope that the competition would continue for more talents to be discovered and urged the government to mentor to stardom those who performed well.

Black Stone Boys of Nri defeated Ogene FC of Obeledu 1-0 to win the trophy with a cash prize of N500, 000.

The runners-up got N300, 000 for their efforts.

Dynamic FC of Aguluzigbo beat Enugu-Ukwu boys 5-4 on penalties in the third place match to get N200, 000, while the latter went home with a consolation prize of N 100,000.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/anichebe-partner-anambra-govt-provide-synthetic-pitches-schools/

kasynlives:
Former Super Eagles striker and English Premiership striker Victor Anichebe, says he is willing to partner with Anambra Government to provide synthetic pitches in schools in the state.

Anichebe made the appeal at the final of his maiden grassroots football championship for youths in Anambra, held at Nri Boys High School in Anaocha Local Government Area on Sunday.

He said that he hoped to achieve the development of youths through his “Own Goal Project’’.

The player, who made his mark at Everton FC of England, said there were lots of talents that were not in an environment that could help to develop their talents.

“I just think it is important to support the youth, I am where I am because of the support of some other people.

“And it is for me and other people that played the game as well as the government to give the youth the necessary lift.

“I plan to partner with the state government to do more things like this with my “Own Goal Project’’ and application that can be used to showcase the talents of these young ones across the world.

“The quality of play is good, it could be better; the field is not the best and hopefully with the collaboration of the government I can help bring better pitches to my state,’’ he said.

“I intend to put a synthetic pitch here and that is the way forward for youth football in Nigeria, we need the pitch because it serves in all weather.

“Let us be honest to ourselves, if we want to be a strong nation in youth football, we can’t continue to play on pitches like this.

“In England, we have parks that have great pitches, these youths need to go and train, they need better facilities and that is what government should do for them in addition to what we are doing.’’

Anichebe appealed to governments in the country to provide basic facilities to effectively harness young talents at the grassroots.

He also urged the Anambra Government to reinvigorate school age sports through greater collaboration between the ministries of sports and education.

The Chairman, Local Organising Committee for the competition, Anthony Ugorji, noted that improving on the sports facilities in schools would make them to become centres of both academic and sporting excellence.

“We must return to the schools and grassroots to rediscover our glory in sports as a nation.

“We must thank Gov. Willie Obiano for his interest and impressive record in youth empowerment.

“We also urge the governor to ensure synergy between the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Sports for effective sports development in primary and secondary schools,’’ he said.

He expressed the hope that the competition would continue for more talents to be discovered and urged the government to mentor to stardom those who performed well.

Black Stone Boys of Nri defeated Ogene FC of Obeledu 1-0 to win the trophy with a cash prize of N500, 000.

The runners-up got N300, 000 for their efforts.

Dynamic FC of Aguluzigbo beat Enugu-Ukwu boys 5-4 on penalties in the third place match to get N200, 000, while the latter went home with a consolation prize of N 100,000.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/anichebe-partner-anambra-govt-provide-synthetic-pitches-schools/

Kingcesar:
Hahahahaha with which money??

hkidola00:
DO U AV ANY IDEA HOW MUCH FOOTBALLERS EARN

Kingcesar:
how many schools The guy said schools not school

Zonacom:
Unfortunately, Ifeanyi ubah, the state's FA chairman is in DSS detention. I believe he should've been in a better position to work with Anichebe.

hkidola00:
hello fellow footballers, firstly r.i.p to CHEICK TIOTE who passed away at training for his chinese team at d age of 30....my point here is that we footballers lie a lot about age, an african player can be 46 with a football age of 30 and den we really think training really hard at dat age isnt a gamble?,i.am not saying tiote lied about his age, but we cant rule out d fact dat africa player lie d most....let keep a sane age pls and not minusing over 12 yrs from d real age

tiger28:
let him pay his debt and he will be a free man.

SageTravels:




How does this relate to the post

hkidola00:
hello fellow footballers, firstly r.i.p to CHEICK TIOTE who passed away at training for his chinese team at d age of 30....my point here is that we footballers lie a lot about age, an african player can be 46 with a football age of 30 and den we really think training really hard at dat age isnt a gamble?,i.am not saying tiote lied about his age, but we cant rule out d fact dat africa player lie d most....let keep a sane age pls and not minusing over 12 yrs from d real age

gbosaa:



You are a sadist and a silly person. There are lots of players who lost their lives in football pitch and most of them are under 30 and non African.

You are so paranoid that even if most African players put their ages at around 35years, mpama like you would still doubt and add more years to them.

Gregory Mertens was just 24 when he died playing for Lokeren.

Parmerio morosini of Livorno was 25 when he died.

Fabrice Muamba nearly lost his life at the age of 24 in 2012.

I don't want to mention the likes of Vivien Foe or Okwaraji because anuofia like you would still disrespect them.

Anybody and at any age can suffer heart problem.

hkidola00:
you are a fool