Football remains the number one sports in Nigeria, fans, talents have no doubt felt disappointed by the administration of the sports. Football fans may have lost faith in the leauge, when you consider performance and how outragiously poor some performances are in Nigeria, the leauge is marred by insecurity and associated violence, players are owed and this makes it even more difficult to encourage youths to venture into football.
Nontheless, die hard fans never say never. Identifying talents at grassroot level has been a plague, the NPFL, NFF has after years of operation created no tangible system for it. This has been a worry and a continuous conflict between sponsors and NPFL as it makes the sporting business yeild less and may gradually die. If there are no sensations to lookout for due to poor organization and sponsorships, fans feel reluctant to pay for matches.
The Nigerian league do not have an Eden Harzard, Mbappe, Neymar or Ronaldo to drool over just yet. But at the grassroot, the future looks bright if NPFL can step up and encourage grassroot developers like Solo Football Club Aba.
The goodnews is that grassroob clubs are springing up, these clubs conduct massive grassroot talent hunt and feed the leauge. In years to come, we would have bridge the drain that plagued the leaugue since the likes of Taye Taiwo and Mikel Obi.
It is amazing the kind of exposure and experience grassroot clubs offer aspiring young players. The attention to grassroot talents has given rise to shows such as Oceanic Bank Fash Fc, Inter street competitions in lagos, pepsi beach soccer, copa coca cola. The down side is that after the show, these talents are left to rot.
Nigeria like Brazil (lossing 7-1 to Germany) in 2014 have not lost passion for football irrespective of the lows, players come up daily, but unfortunately no time to prepare them for a team. Indidvial players are important but team experience makes a talent meaningful and ready for use
Solo Football Club Aba in the past one year has been offering grassroot talents continuity to develop, while ushering them into the leauge. As Pele ones said, "there is no subtitute to parctice and experince"
Solo football Club Aba, works at the base and gives these players a chance to play matches day in day out, so they can gain expeience and be prepared for a future in the sports industry.
Fooball today has become tougher than before, but football is all about skills and skills are found in the streets of Nigeria. Like the Chinese have rightly said, "money is in the streets of Nigeria", i can categorically say that football talent are in the streets of Nigeria.
Solo Fc is a grassroot talent hunt club, they take out the initial job of grassroot scouting, and enhance the talent until they are easily incoporated in professional stands.
