140 players jostle for FOSLA scholarship

Over 140 U-13 players from the Federal Capital Territory will take part in this year’s edition of the FOSLA Football Academy scholarship programme.

A statement from the Academy and signed by Coordinator of the football tournament Patrick Ngwaogu, said the programme would hold on Saturday 4th April, 2015 at the Academy’s play ground in Karshi Abuja.

He said all the six Area Councils and Karshi would take part in tournament, adding that “already, we have gone round the six Area councils of FCT to screen the players who must be under the ages of thirteen years, and in primary five and six.

“Those selected would join those already selected from Kogi state to compete for the ten academic scholarships available in the Academy”.

Speaking further, proprietor and founder of the Academy, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi said, the programme which started in 1999 was aimed at identifying talented players who are naturally endowed in the game of football and providing them with the platform to combine their academics with football.

“Our school is now in the fifth year, but we started this programme in 1999. Our curriculum is approved by the government in line with the Nigeria Educational Programme. We organize this programme on yearly basis, and those players identified will be given scholarship to continue their education while playing their football in the school starting from JSS 1.

The 10 players that would be selected at the end of the programme will enjoy a total yearly scholarship of N7.25million.