Milo Football Clinic kicks off in Lagos

The final leg of season four of the annual Milo Football Clinic kicks off in Lagos on Tuesday. Kids across Lagos will today converge at the Agege Stadium as the event that started in Abuja in September takes the final lap.

Six major cities in Nigeria had hosted the clinic coordinated by one of the Nigeria’s greatest goalkeepers, Peter Rufai, and for five days, participants between 13 and 15 will be tutored on the rudiment of football by top coaches led by the former Super Eagles goalkeeper.

The coaches are expected to select the best 32 from the over 2,000 kids participating to take part in the novelty match that will climax the Lagos event on Saturday.

Brand Manager of Milo, Funmi Osineye has said that the clinic is not about acquiring skills alone, but also teaching and tutoring the kids on the values of life, which she believes would help them in their future endeavour. Among the values listed by Osineye are determination, discipline, respect, honesty, and teamwork.

  For the season four, over 14,000 kids are expected to be trained and when the Lagos leg of the camp is concluded on Saturday, the target set for this season would have been met.

Osineye said, “We believe that long after the final whistle is blown, these children are better equipped to face the future as their social, team building and leadership skills have been developed through the practice of good sportsmanship as exemplified throughout this week. And Milo would continue to develop healthy, physically fit, intellectually sound and morally upright champions for a better Nigeria.”

Apart from Abuja this year’s edition of the Milo football clinic has also been held in Benin, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Akure and Abeokuta. In each of these venues, 32 selected kids were awarded scholarships between N20,000 and N40,000 and as well as Milo products and stationery.