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    Tuesday 23 February 2016

    FC Barcelona's first African Football Academy to be built up in Lagos

    The Barcelona Football Club of Spain's first African Football Academy will be built up in Nigeria's business capital, Lagos, senator Ambode has affirmed.

    Ambode who got the club's board individuals on Monday said the choice of the Barcelona Football Club to build up its first African football institute in the state was in a state of harmony with his organization's theory for games advancement.

    He swore the backing of the legislature in guaranteeing the effective take-off of the venture.

    The representative included that the foundation was a thing of happiness coming during an era when the state was all the while relaxing in the elation of effectively facilitating a universal marathon.

    Ambode said, "This visit by FC Barcelona is coming during an era when we just facilitated a global marathon. I need to guarantee you that we are focused on this organization since we know it will give us the principal FCBEscola in Africa. I was made to comprehend this is the first of its kind in Africa thus Lagos is priding itself as a noteworthy receptor of your first foundation to be built up in Africa.

    "I realize this will make a decent stage for youth improvement and grass roots strengthening. We have the same qualities with FC Barcelona which are appreciation, boldness, quietude, social incorporation and group administration.

    "Whatever it is that we have to do to guarantee this undertaking takes off as fast as could be expected under the circumstances; we are prepared to bolster you in light of a legitimate concern for every one of us."

    The senator said game was the fate of administration to make a stage for youth job and youth engagement in Lagos.

    The senator likewise vowed the backing of the state government to the Nigeria Football Federation in facilitating the primary Beach Soccer African Nations Cup in Lagos, which will hold between December 10 and 23, 2016.

    The NFF President, Amaju Pinnick, promised the backing of the football body in guaranteeing the accomplishment of the institute, particularly as far as encouraging the vital endorsements.

    Talking amid the visit, Director of Business and an individual from the FC Barcelona Management Board, Pau Vilanova Vila-Abadal, who drove the group to the state house, said FC Barcelona chose to set up its institute in Lagos because of the great populace of the state, and the chance to impart the theory of the group to the state.

    The Worldwide Director of Barcelona Academy, Oscar Grau, said players like Lionel Messi, Andre Iniesta, Sergio Busquets, Gerard Pique, among others, all began from institutes, including that the club had a one of a kind approach of imparting extraordinary excellencies in footballers.


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