Helping the Talents, HTT academy recently organized a seminar/ training for football coaches in Lagos which is geared at providing them the needed support in their quest to groom and nurture youngsters in their academics.
A group of coaches who spoke on the seminar, thanked the Academy's management for exposing them to modern football techniques through an experienced football coach, Chris McGinn from the United Kingdom.
To Elesho, who trains young football players in Adamo, Ikorodu,said he had acquired new skills that would enhance him to groom and nurture young football players to become one of Nigeria's future stars.
The academy which is a development of Shaggy Football Club, which is in Lagos State has been responsible for creating many successful footballers who now play forvarious international teams in Europe.
Since its inception in 2001, the academy has made stars such as Kabiru Akinshola who had played in La Liga, Akeem Agbetu who plays in France and many more.
The coaching clinic, according to the Academy's Director, Samuel Ojo, is to expose participants, who were delighted to be part of the exercise,to the technical knowledge on how to train their players, enhance creative abilities and making good decisions on the pitch.
Ojo, stressed that he had been discussing with representatives of some England's Premier league football coaches who have expertise in training young football players who are expected to arrive Nigeria next year for the second phase to train Nigeria's football coaches.
The seminar/ coaching tagged Level One coaching course will help the academy to achieve its set objective of transforming football academies in Nigeria for better as the academy's plans is to have centres well spread across the five regions of Lagos State, Ikeja, Badagry, Ikorodu, Lagos Island and Epe.
According to him, Africa as a continent is blessed with young talented football players but there is urgent need to introduce them to the fundamental and basics of football to align with the modern techniques of football as the Academy's priority is to be face of African football to Europe and other parts of the world.
Not losing the focus of Helping The Talents, Ojo, explained that plans are in top gear to attract spirited sports philanthropists to adopt super outstanding young players from the academy who would have access to quality football kits and the opportunity of traveling for international exposure as it would give them a guaranteed future..
He said the academy had a solid structure as there was a comprehensive data of all the academy's players which give them the opportunity to give a profile of each of their players unlike other academies that lack administrative qualities to establish an academy.
According to him the academy's goal is to take young, skilled children in Sports, train and develop them to their full potential, adding that the academy's primary aim is to help deprived children from the less fortunate parts of Africa and those that are growing up in difficultly in different parts of the world.
He stressed the academy would work hard to make the kids to stop being a burden and become an asset to their families and be of great influence even to their society in the near future.
He added that the less privileged children would get the opportunity to live a normal life away from their hardship, most importantly they have a chance to turn their talent to success, stressing that Help The Talent Academy ultimately works to provide an exciting, educational, fun and safe sports focus experience for the children, with their success being the primary ambition.
McGinn at the first phase of the coaches Seminar/training said "we'll look at where there strengths are, where they have expertise that can be valid and useful and really important to other players. We'll look closely at what they can do and give them the benefit of being able to bring that foot to the front and we'll build on that expertize".
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