Youth football teams drawn from leading academies from the West African sub region will join the Pepsi Football Academy in a special edition of the Pepsi U-17 International Tournament to celebrate 50 years of Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc in Nigeria.
The teams include Afad Football Academy of Cote D’Ivoire, Liberty Professionals, Ghana and Liberty Academy, Togo.
The visiting teams will be joined by the Lagos State Youth team to trade tackles with the Pepsi Football Academy lads in what promises to be a prodigious display of football skills.
The tournament which will hold at the MKO Abiola stadium and Abeokuta Grammar School both in Abeokuta will take place between 3 September and 11 September.
Director of Pepsi Football Academy, Dr. Kasimawo Laloko, said the academies invited are ranked among the best in the region with rich tradition of producing excellent young football talents.
He said the Pepsi Football Academy youngsters are well prepared for this tournament and will match the visiting teams skills for skills.
Commenting on this special edition of the Pepsi U-17 international tournament, Mr. Iain Nelson, Consultant to the Pepsi Football Academy, said: “Pepsi Football Academy has a reason to celebrate with Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc on its 50th anniversary. The academy has enjoyed excellent support and encouragement from the company in the past 18 years, which has seen it discovered, nurtured and developed fully fledged world class football professionals plying their trade for different clubs in Nigeria, in the national teams and Europe.â€
Former students of Pepsi Academy include John Mikel Obi, Osaze Odemwingie, Onyekachi Apam, Solomon Okoronkwo, Isaac Promise and Elderson Chiejile among others.
Football lovers who are expected to throng the two venues for the matches have been assured of excellent hospitality and freebies from Seven-Up Bottling Company Plc in the spirit of its 50th anniversary celebration.
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My name is Kevin Akpoguma,born in 1995 in Germany where i corrently live..My dad is a Nigerian and my mum is a German.Iam very active in football.I am in the youths level of KSC.a division two club where Marculay Christantus plays at the senior level.Iam interested in playing for Nigeria U17 team.Please help me contact the Trainer Monday Odigie.to get in touch with me.i want to come for a trier. my family will pay for everything.I am hopefully looking forward.for a good response to this mail.
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