On a daily basis, histories are being made in the Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament taking place in Benin City, Edo State, as the Chief Coach of FC Robo Queens of Lagos, Emmanuel Osahon, for the first time in the history of women football development in Nigeria introduced a 10-year-old player, Kemi Adegbuyi, in the second half of the Group B match against Fortress Ladies FC of Benin, where team captain, Gift Monday scored all the five goals of the match that confirmed the club’s leadership of the group.
Kemi Adegbuyi, who was first seen earlier this year at the First EkoFootball Women’s Championship played at the Legacy Pitch and Agege Stadium, Lagos, provided the assist for the fifth goal scored by Gift Monday.
The young player said she wants to be like Assisat Oshoala when she grows, the reason she was happy joining FC Robo, the team that trained her to become the best player in Africa. Aunty Assisat is my hero. I believe God will take me there.
FC Robo Queens of Lagos Proprietor and Chief Coach, Emmanuel Osahon, noted that he first saw Kemi Adegbuyi, a student of Igbowu Junior Secondary School Mushin, Lagos at the EkoFootball Women’s Championship at the Legacy Pitch one of the venues, playing for an Amateur club, OC Queens and he saw the potential in the young girl and he decided to sign her on for his NWFL Premiership club, looking back at his antecedents in grooming young players like Assisat Oshoala, Rashidat Ajibade, Chidima Okeke, Gift Monday and Esther Onyenezide. All these five players are regulars in the national women’s football teams, the Super Falcons,the Flamengos and Super Falconets. With three out of them foreign based Stars and one of them Assisat Oshoala, a four times African Woman Footballer of the Year.
“I believe that with her flair and talents, she will turn out to be a great player in years to come. Thank God for the Betsy Obaseki Women Football Tournament, we are using it as our pre-season to prepare for the NWFL Premiership League which starts on December 8, 2021.
