Former National Table Tennis Coach, Babatunde Obisanya has revealed FUBS initiative online interview the need for young ones early exposal to variety of sporting activities early in life to allow for choices to be made as it was before and in developed countries where basic facilities are available at various levels of government.
“While still very young in Ibadan, some people were playing football and others were busy with table tennis while some were busy with hockey,athletics among many other activities”, the I970 commonwealth champion revealed.
Obisanya emphasized that each state sports council or whatever should identify people who have passion for this sport and reach out to some philanthropists in their area to organize competition at their local level and giving winners playing equipment which hitherto they could not afford and monitor there on.
“There are about 3/4 age categories namely::U13, U 15, U 18 and of course the Open/Senior 18 and above, therefore table tennis and other sports should be accessible by all citizens at all levels of government and the government providing basic infrastructure. This is what obtains in other developed countries ie. Any community you have a population of about 2/3hundred thousands must have a community hall with sporting activities that may be peculiar to that community”.
