Ilorin Agog For Gulder 5-A-Side Qualifier Siasia

Kwara Football Academy in Ilorin, Kwara State came alive with excitement and fun when the Gulder 5-A-side football championships regional screening for the Northern States kicked off in the state.

Speaking at the screening centre in Ilorin, the Administrator of Kwara Football Academy (KFA), Kunbi Titiloye, while watching over 52 club sides representing the North Central at the main pitch of The Kwara Football Academy, inside the Ilorin Township Stadium, commended Nigerian Breweries Plc and the Gulder brand for their innovation in developing the game of football and providing opportunity for discovering raw football talents in Nigeria.

Titiloye called on other corporate organisations to emulate Nigerian Breweries Plc whose brand, Gulder, has generated a lot of awareness on the round leather game.

He boasted that the one of the northern club sides will emerge as the overall winner in this year edition of the Gulder Ultimate 5-A-side Football competition where N8 million is at stake for the final three teams standing.

“This is what we have been advocating for; that corporate bodies should come out and support government in the development of the game of soccer. By so doing, it will bring about the needed turnaround of our national teams.

“In this competition, there is no way raw talents will not emerge, such football talents can be developed and subsequently placed in the national team” Titiloye disclosed.

The football administrator then called on the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to give adequate attention to the development of sports at the grassroots across the country just as the Gulder brand is currently doing with the Gulder-5-A-side Football.

Also speaking, the captain of Santos Football Club from Zaria, Mr. Segun Akintunde, said that his team is in for a show down with other clubs from the zone, adding that his team will emerge as one of the winners that will eventually pick the qualifying ticket to Lagos.