BY SUNDAY AKINTOYE
Some foreign partners of the Island Stars Football Academy of Lagos recently donated football kits and other sports equipment to the academy for effective training ahead of its future programmes.
Among the partners who provided football kits and other sports equipment to the academy are Chris and Dayspring Osisiogu, Ian Fenwick and Tilgent Pay.
Others are Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation, Pinnacle UK, Alan Atkinson, and Worthing FC.
The football kits and sports equipment were given to the scholarship players recently, who are beneficiaries of the Island Stars Football & Education Scholarship programme.
Some of the scholarship players who received the sports kits are the talented young players & athletes from low-income families so that they can train and continue to develop their skills in the academy.
While some other things, such as school fees, books, uniforms and other educational needs are taken care of under the scholarship programme by the academy.
Commenting on the football kits donated to the academy, the founder of Island Stars Football Academy, Victor Akinmoyo thanked their partners and other sports stakeholders who contributed immensely to the academy, saying that the football kits would really help the players to bring the best out of them.
“Let me use this medium to thanks our foreign partners such as Chris and Dayspring Osisiogu, Ian Fenwick and Tilgent Pay, together with the Brighton & Hove Albion Foundation, Pinnacle UK, Alan Atkinson, and Worthing FC for their donation of large batch of children’s football kits to Island Stars Football Academy in Lagos.
“The players have received the kits and they were happy about it. These football kits would not only go a long way for the beneficiaries, but they will also help our academy to have enough football kits to train with, despite the huge number of players in the academy,” he concluded.
