Chukwumerije launches Team CCSF in Abuja

To fulfil his dream of grooming educated taekwondo champions, three-time Olympian, Chika Chukwumerije, will today in Abuja launches Team Chika Chukwumerije Sports Foundation (CCSF).

According to the 2008 Beijing Olympics medallist, the launching will be attended by the Director General, National Sports Commission (NSC), as well as officials of FCT Education Board and it will hold at Government Secondary School, Garki.

“TEAM CCSF [Taekwondo] is a youth-oriented team, whose objective is to produce national, continental and Olympic champions in its ranks within the first decade and to ensure its members continue and finish their formal education (secondary and tertiary) to a logical end. It also aims to engage its members with extra-curricular learning activities i.e. language courses, event management courses, networking forums and to enhance their out-of-school learning experience,” Chukwumerije said.

He added: “The launch is a culmination of a long year of recruitment and engagement of young Nigerians, with select G.S.S schools at the heart of this exercise, and executed totally free of charge. It is therefore with pleasure that we expect your company at the launch to celebrate your youthful generation, whose development so far in the sport is as a result of our collective engagement.”

The board of Nigeria Taekwondo Federation (NTF) led by its president, George Ashiru, will also attend the event.