BIG BOOST FOR YOUNG TALENTS..................AS GTBank holds Football Development Camp for Students and Coaches
“Your
talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God”- Leo
Buscaglia
IN
a bid to boost young talent in the country, CERUTTI MEDIA WEEKEND SPORTS MEGA
MIX has scoped that Foremost African financial institution, Guaranty Trust Bank
plc, has concluded plans to sponsor 40 outstanding young talents
discovered at its football tournaments as well as 60 school coaches on an
all-expense paid intensive player development and coach-training programme
tagged “Camp GTBank.”
Camp
GTBank is a football and educational development initiative designed to train
and develop outstanding football talents discovered at the GTBank football
tournaments which include the GTBank-Lagos State Principals Cup, GTBank-Ogun
State Principals Cup and the GTBank Masters Cup. Since its inception in 2011,
Camp GTBank has helped kick start the careers of more than 120 footballers,
some of whom have been selected to represent the country in international
tournaments at various levels, and are currently playing in both domestic and
foreign league clubs.
Holding
in Lagos from the 21st to the 28th of August, 2017, this
year’s edition of Camp GTBank will help prepare the outstanding talents for
successful football careers whilst building the capacity of the coaches to
improve the quality and potential of grassroots football. The 8-day residential
camp will feature renowned coaches such as Augustine Eguavoen, the former coach
of Nigeria’s Super Eagles, Jolomi Atune, coach of the Nigeria’s U-15 Future
Eagles, and Ajuma Ottache, the only female coach of a professional male
football team in Nigeria, amongst others.
The
coaches will take the players through all the aspects of the game, expose them
to modern rules and regulations and improve their physical and metal
conditioning to position them for a professional career. The coaches will also
offer expert coaching lessons to the school coaches and sport instructors over
a two day period to develop and enhance their knowledge and technical
competence.
Commenting
on the Camp GTBank, the Managing Director/CEO of GTBank, Segun Agbaje, said
“Given the amazing talents shortlisted for this programme and the quality of
the coaches overseeing their development, I am confident that Camp GTBank will
be a seedbed for the emergence of professional footballers who will go on to
have very successful careers. This goes to the heart of our sports education
initiatives, which are aimed at actively engaging the youths through sports
whilst identifying, nurturing and grooming young football talents.”
He further
stated that “At GTBank, we will continue to invest massively in youth
development through education and sports in order to help more youths actualize
their dreams and to also grow their personal confidence and make them become
better team players.”
Guaranty
Trust Bank plc is one of the few Nigerian financial institutions that have
maintained a defined Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy since its
inception in 1990. The Bank actively supports Education programmes
in-classroom, Out-of-Classroom, infrastructure development, students’
scholarship and teachers training across Africa.
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