Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Licensed Football intermediary and CEO of LEO Sports Agency, Isaac Opeyemi Adeshiyan says HMK Football Club and Academy has the quality to thrive as a business as it’s equipped to train football talents that are bound in Osun State and indeed Nigeria.
HMK Football Club and Academy are a Nationwide League One (NLO) side and client of LEO Sports Agency.
Adeshiyan who was in Ikenne and Sagamu, host venues of the 10th edition of the Optima Energy Gold Cup, told the media about their pet project.
“HMK Football Club is in the third division of the Nigerian domestic league, we are poised to empower the youths in Osun State and its environs and make the dreams of talented players come through by marketing them to the leagues in Africa and Europe.
“We are a business-oriented football side and professionally run as we provide the basic and modern training programmes for our players.
“Football as we all know is capital intensive, the management of HMK has done its research on the football business in Nigeria and understands the short and long-term challenges. Given this, we are focused, and ready in our capacity on investing more into this project to achieve our set targets.
“We started the academy in 2019, and the project has a 10-year plan. We have used more than three years and progressing day after day.
“HMK Football Club and Academy started from the NLO Division 3 and is now in Division 1, certainly in the coming years, the project will get to the top.
“Going forward, we did learn one or two lessons in our debut season in the NLO Division 1, we hope to improve on these shortcomings going into the new football season.
“Three years down the line, we are still networking with the top clubs in and outside Nigeria, as we try to market the good talents. We hope shortly, the club will record success with our players moving to some of the top leagues in the world.”
