Giant Brillers, Kwara FA Holds Scouting Tournament With Seven Soccer Academy In Ilorin

Date: 2023-10-06

Soccer promotion giant, Giant Brillers, and Kwara Football Association, FA, have collaborated on a far reaching scouting program to have young football talents exposed to foreign scouts and onward transfer to big clubs in Europe.

The program is organized in form of a football tournament among seven football clubs and academies, to begin Thursday.

According to the features seven clubs will be participating in the tournament. These are Foresight FA, Abraysports FC, La Planet SA Sunrise FA, Laycon FC, Oladunni FC and Kwara Football Academy, KFA.

Speaking on this, Mall. Idris Abdullahi Musa, aka Thuraya, the state FA chairman, said that the deal with Giant Brillers is in keeping with the state football House deliberate policy to transit grassroots sports development to elite sports.

“Every body stands to gain here; the players, their development clubs and the state at large,” explained Thuraya.

According to him, the tournament is not a mere fishing expedition without any envisaged outcome.

“It's a scouting program where we already know where the players are going,” Thuraya explained.

He stated Giant Brillers already has European clubs lined up and ready to have their scouts watch the best of the talents from the tournament.

Sports business experts have established a nexus between soccer talent exports and foreign Direct Investment, FDI.

For instance, Kwara economy enjoyed an injection of at least N50 million from a total N2.5 billion from repatriated.

Explaining Giant Brillers's involvement, in the scouting tournament, Mustapha Salisu, manager and scouting officer for the sporting firm, said that tournament is big with potential of exposing talents from Kwara to quality technical directors from big clubs from Europe.

“We are not new in this business. Aside playing in NNL, we have contacts in big clubs abroad looking for talents Nigeria is known for,” he said.

 

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