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Ikpeba Football Challenge to move round Nigeria

The Victor Ikpeba Football Challenge will move round the 36 states of Nigeria and Abuja starting from the next edition of the U-17 Football competition which is basically for development and exposure of hidden talents .

 

This was disclosed at the weekend by the former African Footballer of the Year, Victor Ikpeba, who s t ressed that: “The only way I believe future Nigerian soccer youngsters can be discovered is by moving this Five-A-Side Football Challenge to all states of the federation.

 

“The talents are there, but they are hidden and competitions like these don’t get to them to get them exposed to the world. Such talents will just rot away without proper development and exposure.

 

“That is why we have decided with the full backing of Bet9ja to move this competition to all states of Nigeria in the Five-A-Side Challenge.”

 

Ikpeba added: “Sometimes, it’s difficult to discover great talents playing the conventional full field football, but quicker to see them in the Five-A-Side format since the Challenge is just for three days. Some of the great talents discovered will be given the opportunity for exposure.”

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