Adopt-A-Talents Sports Athletes Are Future Nigerian Champions-Oteje

Judo coach of Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme, Olugbenga Oteje has hailed the potentials in the athletes in the ongoing summer camping of the porgramme, saying they are Nigeria's future champions.

The athletes are currently undergoing a 10-day camping at the Myoung Barracks, Somolu, Lagos. Oteje said he was surprise to see how the athletes are responding to training.

"In Judo, we are training on the rudiments and modern techniques of the game, but I was surprised that the athletes caught up with what we are training them," he said.

The coach said that with the programme lined up by the Management Committee of the Adopt-A-Talents Sports Programme headed by Prince Wale Oladunjoye, who is the Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sports Development to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, the sky will be the limit for the athletes in the nearest future.

 "I see potential world champions in these young Judokas. We are bringing the best out of them and the state and indeed the country will be better for it," Oteje said. About 180 athletes are participating in the summer campinga, which will end on Sunday, 16 September.

Athletics has 31 athletes, Basketball (24), Boxing (8), Football (44), Gymnastics (10), Judo (11), Karate (10), Swimming (13), Table Tennis (17) and Volleyball (11).

The athletes comprise 103 boys and 77 girls. They are having their at University of Lagos Sports Centre, Yaba College of Technology, Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, and Jalisco Sports Centre, Oshodi.