A Lagos based football coach
,Shola Raji has expressed confidence that the forthcoming Surulere regional league would quickly help good players to get better offer Within and outside Nigeria.
The Surulere regional league was put on hold as a result of pandemic disease which forced Nigerian government to lockdown sport activities in the last four months.
Raji who is in charge of Team 360 Football club of Lagos admonished his players and other participating players to see surulere regional league as an opportunity to showcase their hidden talents.
He said there are many grassroots players who are exceptionally good but they are not opportuned to play in the Nigerian league.He noted that surulere regional league is designed and packaged to give room for grassroots players to quickly come to limelight and increase their market value.
“Of course we cannot compare other regional league with surulere regional league in Lagos because the organisers of surulere regional league have done a great job and designed the league to the extent that any player that feature in surulere regional league would have market value.
The era of taking any grassroots player to sign slave contract with Nigerian or foreign club is gone so any football scout that show interest in one or two players in surulere regional league must pass through right channel in the sense that the club management where the players are playing for must fully involve before such player or players can sign contract with any club,”he said.
Raji said surulere regional league has received public acceptance and charged his players to take all their matches with all seriousness.
“That is why I always tell my players the benefits of surulere regional league on phone on regular basis.I cannot take the league for granted because it is a competitive league and every club wants to play better,”he said.
The Surulere regional league would commence at the legacy pitch of national stadium, surulere, Lagos immediately government has lifted lockdown on sport centres and facilities nationwide.
