Former ABS Ilorin, Kogi Utd, Imperial Soccer Academy football coach, Jimoh Wasiu has revealed the input of Nigerian foreign-based players parent investment on their children after the release of the detailed payment of an Irish football academy set to resume in a fortnight. So make use of 1xbet code for 2021, one of the best options on the market.
Also an ex Kwara United, Knight FC coach, Wasiu allayed the need for deliberate investment on the path of parents who want their children to excel in a chosen field in sport and the athletes themselves owing it to take responsibilities.
See his culled revelations below from his experiences:
As Irish football academies set to resume in a fortnight, I met a parent whose son just got promoted to U17 of Longford Town Fc, an Irish premier league side. The parent told me each academy player in U17 pays €30 (#17,000) per training, and trains 3 times a week €90 (#51,000) per week for each player, €360 (#204,000) per month, €4,320 (#2,488,000) per player year as dues, on average for training each child under an academy as a citizen, while foreign academy players pay over 300% more.
We can see what it might have caused parents of Iwobi, Aina, Alaba, Ekong, etc to have their kids trained to become footballers, and these payments go on until a player gets a professional contract from the club or scholarship. So when you see players making millions of dollars in Europe, their parents had already invested a lot in building them.
But in Nigeria we expect to learn football and train for free or little, grassroots players will have money to buy phones and recreation but won’t invest in their career, rather will want their coaches/academies to train them for free, give them free balls, boots, free transport, free pure water, while some of these coaches die in penury, struggle to pay their children school fees, go into debts developing players that may not pay them back or remember them when they succeed.
I have seen Nigerian Coaches fall sick without finance to take care of themselves, stay in bars waiting for free beers, some depend on their wives for survival, while waiting to sell a successful player before getting dividends which most times doesn’t come through, it’s a huge shame.
For Football to grow and genuinely develop, we must understand that football is a profession, not everybody will be a player, those who wish to play the game professionally must be prepared to pay for it, NOTHING GOOD COMES FREE, Nigerian Coaches must demand their rights and stop missionary coaching, even British missionaries in Africa were not free missionaries as they took/gained from Africa even more than gave.
Every young child whose parents/guardians can not sponsor his/her football education should engage in other activities and Coaches whose profession does not put food on his table should quit working hard but start WORKING RIGHT & SMART.
