The Ado Ekiti based Nationwide League One side, Phoenix Athletics Sports Club preparations for the new NLO season hit top gear as it is set to wrap up its two-week long trials on Saturday, 9th February, 2019. According to the team’s head coach, Bolarinwa Idris, the old players are expected to resume training alongside the […]
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The Ado Ekiti based Nationwide League One side, Phoenix Athletics Sports Club preparations for the new NLO season hit top gear as it is set to wrap up its two-week long trials on Saturday, 9th February, 2019. According to the team’s head coach, Bolarinwa Idris, the old players are expected to resume training alongside the […]
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As part of the immediate dividends of its partnership with The Different Box LLC and United Arab Emirates (Dubai Sports Council), four clubs from the Nationwide League One (NLO) have been invited to take part in the maiden edition of a Gulf-African Football Tournament scheduled for early next year in Dubai.
GAF is a tournament organized by a Dubai-based event management company (The Different Box) along with the permit of Dubai Sports Council. It is a two week event; starting from January 10-25, 2016 and will feature sixteen teams from both regions.
The Executive Secretary of the NLO, Olushola Ogunnowo said that the invitation was made possible following the League’s quest to collaborate with the lower league in Dubai in its effort to showcase the NLO to the world.
However, the NLO Secretariat has written to all clubs in the NLO to prepare ahead of the tournament that would also serve as pre-season training for the clubs.
“Good things are bound to happen in our League with the giant strides we are taking here at the Secretariat, and which are approved and supported by the Board. This invitational tournament will help to expose our boys, improve the level of growth in the League and even open business opportunities for the clubs and players alike.”
“The organizers of the tournament rated our League high; that is why they gave us as many as four slots. Nigeria alone has been handed four slots out of the eight reserved for the entire African continent, so we can’t afford to miss this chance; we are going to mobilize our clubs to honour the invitation,” he said.
In its quest to entrench good organization in the lowest tier of the nation’s football Leagues, through synergy with established Leagues across the globe, the Chairman of the Nationwide League One, Alhaji Ahmad Kawu is set to lead a four man team to Dubai to meet with officials of Liga Nacional de Futbol Profesional.
The team which also includes the Executive Secretary of NLO, Mr. Olushola Ogunnowo, Alhaji Yarma Farouk and Marinze Cassandra Ijeoma will depart the shore of the country on Sunday 18th October, 2015 for a meeting scheduled for Monday 12:00 am in Dubai.
Mr. Ogunnowo said that the aim of the visit is to discuss ways and modalities to find the synergy between the NLO and the LaLiga.
However, the NLO team will meet with Fernando Sanz Duran, General Director (Middle East and North Africa for LaLiga) and his team in their office in Dubai.
“We (the Board and Secretariat of NLO) are doing everything possible within our reach to truly develop Nationwide League One in order for us to meet up with the global standard.”
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