Club Athletique Bizertin Signs Apapa Golden Star ace, Ajawara.

The huge investment of Apapa local government on sports development has started yielding fruits as one of the football players of Apapa Golden Stars, Austin Ajawara has signed a two year contract with Club Athletique Bizertin of  Tunisian.

The deal according to the Executive Chairman of Apapa local government, Ayodele Joseph was made possible through a tour of Tunisia.

 Joseph, explained that Ajarawa, who initially play for the club’s junior team now play with the club’s senior team after an impressive trial is likely to attract a lucrative deal in the soccer season following his performance in the Tunisian league.

The team, Club Athletique Bizertin which had paraded former Super Eagles and African Footballer of Year, Rasheed Yekini, during the 1988/ 89 league season, is second on the just concluded Tunisian league with 65 points.

The council boss, said his involvement in sports had drastically reduced crime rate in Apapa and its environ as the gesture has given the youths a platform to display their talents, adding that the council had concluded plans to begin a school sports competition in 2013 where the pupils would compete in various sporting activities.

He said the Apapa Golden Stars would surpass the feat achieved in the last concluded Lagos Junior League, adding that the tour of Tunisia was to expose them to international football in order to attract invitation to the national teams.