‘MTN Football Scholar gives Nigeria aspiring footballers a resounding hope’- Wole Opatola

One of the Nigerian leading sports analysts and broadcaster, Wole Opatola has said that, MTN Football Scholar is an initiative that gives unprecedented hope to aspiring footballers in the country. Speaking to the finalists of the ongoing season 4 of the soccer scholarship initiative, who are currently in camp for the first academy of the season.

‘MTN Football Scholar has done great thing for football development in this country. Four years on, the project has continued to produce educated soccer stars, which I believe one day will become the glory of this nation. In fact, the initiative has given a resounding hope to aspiring Nigerian footballers’ he declared.

MTN football scholar season 4 kicked off with auditions across six cities of Calabar, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Akure, Abuja and Lagos and successfully came to an end on May 9th. And the potential finalists are currently camping at Teslim Balogun stadium, Surulere Lagos.

 In the camp, the boys will be groomed in speeches and would be assessed in Math and English tests. They will also take part in qualifying matches where foreign coaches will have the opportunity to watch them play and select final students who would play against established football academies, thereby giving the coaches a wider pool of students to pull from.