Kada City FC created for grassroots devt – Hunkuyi

Kaduna

Kada City FC, Kaduna was established to impact grassroots development through the discovery and nurturing of potential talents in the game, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi has said.
The Senator representing Kaduna North Senatorial District, said he has no regrets being part of the Kada City FC, in view of the impact it would have on the grassroots, while assuring the National Professional League side of his continuous support.
Addressing the media in an interactive session on Thursday in Kaduna as part of the activities of unveiling the club and football academy at the Ahmadu Bello Stadium, Kaduna on Thursday, Senator Hunkuyi said that the club would focus on development of soccer in Kaduna state.
“We see potentials in you the coaches, we see potentials in our younger generation. We also see potentials beyond our state to our entire country.
“My honest and candid advice is that for me and some of us, it is intended to create a huge extract of understanding of a better concept of impacting in the young ones the skills in our state,” he added.
Speaking on the seminar organised for coaches as part of the unveiling, the lawmaker said that with the calibre of dignitaries at the unveiling, the seminar will raise the understanding, skills and knowledge of participants, while translating to raising standards at the communities in the grassroots.
“The resource persons and their time are too precious not to be paid attention to. They would in no little measure contribute to developing football by taking the coaches knowledge to the next level. I must say I quite honestly cannot thank them enough for sparing their time to be here.
Kaduna state FA Chairman, Hon. Abdullahi Kassim Sheriff said Kaduna state is blessed to have three teams in the Professional League. He described Kaduna state as one blessed with abundant talent.
Sheriff commended Osun state FA Chairman, Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi for coming all the way from Osun state to witness the unveiling of the football club. He praised the financier of Kada City FC, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, and the CEO, Ekene Abubakar Adams.
Former NFA secretary general, Ogunjobi, in his remarks, stressed hat coaches and football administrators are lucky to have sports loving sponsors like him. “Kaduna state is so blessed. This is why we came all the way from Ibadan to fish out the late Rashidi Yekini.
“Some months ago, I came from Osun state to steal your players. I went all the way to Kafanchan at the end of the day, we got five players, took them to Osun state where four of them were signed. You will soon hear of them when the season begins. Kaduna yet to discover its own potentials.”
Technical Director, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Coach Bitrus Bewarang said that he was proud of Kaduna as a football state.

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