Season 5, MTN Lagos Street Soccer To Begin In July.

The coast of the MTN Lagos Street Soccer Championship,Season 5, is getting clearer as the competition's stakeholders are expected to converge at the indoor sports hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium,Surulere, next Wednesday to unveil the tournament which has become a household name in Lagos State.

Secretary, MTN Lagos Street Soccer Championship, Deji Aladegbemi,informed Sportsweight.blogspot.com that this year's edition would kick start next Thursday with a road show sensitizing the people of Lagos of the Season 5,Five - A - Side Football competition as he mentioned that over five hundred streets in the male, female and corporate categories had obtained registration forms.

According to Aladegbemi, the stakeholders forum scheduled for for next Wednesday would serve as an opportunity to reveal numerous benefits for the registered football players such as qualifying incentives, foreign tour for the best three teams, prize money to winners and unveiling of the competition's official football balls.

He said the organisers had designed a Player Mentoring Programme where the selected football players would be groomed and also have opportunity to feature in the MTN Football Scholar, adding that the selected football players would form the nucleus of MTN Lagos Street Soccer team that would be participating in any organised football tournaments such as the State's F. A Cup, State's Football League among others.