Rufai’s Football Clinic Hits Enugu

After a successful staging of the Nestle Milo-sponsored football clinic in Lagos last year, former goalkeeper of the Super Eagles, Peter Rufai a.k.a. Dodo Mayana, is ready to let other states of the federation have a feel of the grassroots football developmental programme.

Enugu and Kwara States are the next part of call in this year’s edition with the Enugu leg of the football clinic, organised by Rufai’s Staruf Football Academy, taking place from 10-15 October

P.M.Sports gathered that the first two days of the programme, Monday and Tuesday next week, will be a seminar session for grassroots football coaches with the aim of updating their knowledge of the game. The clinic for children between the ages of 10 and 15 will be followed from Wednesday, 12-15 October.

Speaking on the Enugu leg of the clinic, Rufai, who once played in Belgium, with K.S.C. Lokeren Oost-Vlaanderen and K.S.K. Beveren, said the success of last year’s edition as well as the need to expand the scope of the event, motivated Staruf Football Academy to take the programme to southeast Nigeria.

“The seminar is intended to enrich grassroots coaches with modern techniques of football, to enable them impact it on their players, while the clinic is aimed at exposing our youths to the rudiments of the sport, as the round leather game has gone scientific,” said Dodo Mayana, who had a record of 65 international matches for Nigeria, scoring once, and represented the nation at two FIFA World Cups in USA ’94 and France ’98. He also helped the Super Eagles win the 1994 African Nations Cup, in Tunisia.