Joel Ajayi
The Chairman of Nigeria Premier Football League NPFL Gbenga Elegbeleye has charged NPFL U-17 Youth All Stars players to use the Spain and Portugal tour to showcase their talents.
While advising the players when he visited the team at Training in Abuja, Elegbeleye advised the Outstanding Players on the need to give good account of themselves and to be good ambassadors of Nigeria when they travel for the tour
“I want to congratulate all of you that will be taking part in the tour because you are the first set and I want to appeal to you to use this great opportunity to help your football career”.
“The final list will be out anytime from Friday and we will start Visa processing immediately the list is out. As you can see we are trying our best to see if you can also travel to Portugal to play some matches in addition to the matches in Sevilla Spain where we have partnership to bring our best players to come and showcase their talents”.
Also speaking, coach of the NPFL U-17 team Ken Chukwu believes the team would be ready for the tour.
About 24 players are training morning and evening at the FIFA Goal Project for the NPFL U-17 Tour of Spain.