Copa Lagos Volunteer Process Due To Open.

The volunteer scheme for the next edition of Copa Lagos is due to be launched in a weeks time.

The Beach Soccer tournament, which has banking giants FCMB as one of its sponsors, will be recruiting a new batch of volunteers for the 2nd edition.

Last year Copa Lagos managed to attract in excess of 100 volunteers through the duration of the event as last year's volunteers were able to gain valuable work experience in the sports industry.

Positions volunteered for included, player’s assistant, media staff, Usher, concert staff, ticketing and others.

In addition to the work experience volunteers were also granted access to back stage areas with their accreditation, they also got to meet the players, watch the action live, take pictures with the international cheerleaders, and were presented with certificates to commemorate their achievements.

The volunteer process is due to be officially opened in a weeks’ time an announcement is due to be made on the Copa Lagos Twitter page @CopaLagosBs, on the websitewww.copalagos.com and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/copalagos.

Kinetic Sports officials have indicated that a significant amount of resources have been used to improve the volunteer scheme for this year.

The improvements are intended to make the process much smoother and organised. Commenting on the volunteer scheme Media and PR Officer Steven Apampa said, “The volunteers last year were fantastic and key figures spoke very highly of them.

It is well known that you can’t have a successful tournament without great volunteers that is why we are determined to make improvements for them this year.”

The tournament begins on the 14th of December,2013  and will feature 4 teams, Nigeria, Argentina and Lebanon have been confirmed.