Determined to aid students’ sporting careers, Greensprings School has announced the resumption of the Kanu Football Camp in April 2023 after its suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
The 9th edition of the football camp is scheduled to take place from Sunday, 16th April to Friday, 21st April 2023 at the Lekki Campus of Greensprings School.
Uche Ogbu, the chief strategy officer of the school, said the Kanu Camp is designed to enable young children between the ages of five and 17 to learn the fundamental skills required to be professional football players.
According to him, the camp aims to empower children through football and education, adding that the children are trained by top coaches from Europe and the Lagos State Football Association.
Ogbu revealed that while the camp was suspended, two alumni of Greensprings Kanu Football Camp, Jubril Azeez and Light Eke were recruited into the Golden Eaglets squad for the West African Football Union B U-17 Championship in 2022 and the team won the championship for Nigeria.
He said the two are expected to represent the country at this year’s U-17 African Cup of Nations in Algeria and FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru.
Ogbu said the students will be taken through so many drills including, one-touch shooting, three-goal drills, lay-offs, turns, chest control, headers on goal, basic short passes, shuffling passes, tackling, sliding tackles, goalkeeping, and other exciting drills.
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He listed other activities to include 5-aside football matches, mentoring sessions, mental stimulation, swimming, basketball, and basic networking.
He further said that the European coaches will have a training session with Lagos State football coaches before the camp opens, to help improve their technical coaching skills.
At the end of this one-day intensive training session, top coaches will be selected to be part of the Greensprings Kanu Football Camp and given the opportunity to practise what they have learnt.
On the participation packages, Ogbu mentioned three options for participants as follows residential, non-residential with bus service, and non-residential without bus service.
He advised interested participants to register their children/wards before the 10th of March, to take advantage of the massive early bird discount.
On the camp’s ultimate prize, Ogbu disclosed that the most promising player will be granted a full scholarship into Greensprings School.
“As part of Greensprings School’s corporate social responsibility, awards will be issued to participants based on their conduct in camp; more importantly, the most promising player of the camp will be awarded a full academic scholarship to study at Greensprings School,” he added.
Greensprings Kanu Football Camp is organised by Greensprings School in collaboration with Kanu Nwankwo and Kanu Heart Foundation.
It is a five-day intensive football training project, where boys and girls between the ages of five and 17 years undergo mentorship from Kanu Nwankwo and some European coaches.
