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Ngbako wins Beckham Academy Best Footballer award

By By Igho Otomewo
25 December 2009   |   12:42 pm
FOR his skillfulness and dexterity on the football pitch during the recently held Beckham Soccer Academy Tour, Yakubu Ngbako of Lead British International School, Abuja, was crowned Best Overall Player. Still basking in the euphoria of this honour, Ngbako was full of smiles when he expressed that the award was a source of motivation towards greater achievements, while revealing that his dream was to become a world class footballer. While expressing gratitude to Fane International Sports Tours Limited, which organised the tour, and managers of the Beckham Academy in Nigeria for making this life-time opportunity available to young talents, he said the tour was what up and coming footballers needed to improve their football skills.

The tour, which had about 20 schools in attendance, featured coaching drills, classroom activities, team building exercises and mini tournaments. After the five-day course, certificates and medals were awarded to each participant, while Ngbako received the Best Player trophy. David Beckham’s father, Ted, made the presentation of medals and trophy to participants.

Some of the top schools at the event included Lead British lnternational School, Premier Academy, Capital Science College, Abuja and Showers International School. Others were Trinitate International, Port Harcourt, Olashore International School, Adesoye College and Adewumi College, Kwara State.

According to Fane’s Chief Executive Officer, Olubiyi Fadeyi, the initiative was introduced to schools in Abuja with the aim of discovering talents in their early stages and teaching them modern football techniques. Fadeyi said: “At present, over 200 kids, both boys and girls from various schools in Abuja, have joined the David Beckham Academy Juinor Club, which was recently introduced.

“We do weekly football clinic with our professionally trained coaches from the academy. We hope to introduce these club programmes to international schools in Lagos by January.

“These kids who have registered with the club will have the opportunity to be at the David Beckham Academy both in the U.K. and United States next year July on a two-week football training and tournament.”

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