Valiant FC team owner, Japheth Zubairu has revealed that the recently announced partnership deal with KFA has been struck a long time prior to the official announcement as both sides push to discover and develop grassroots talents for global recognition.
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The privately owned team announced the ground-breaking partnership with Kwara Football Academy as both parties revealed that they have signed a Memorandum of Association (MOU) as released in an official statement on the Valiant FC website yesterday.
Sports247.ng then made concrete efforts to get in touch with the CEO of Valiant FC to confirm the release and get further details of the agreement which Japheth obliged in an exclusive discussion.
“It is a good partnership which means that we will be able to get quality players from Kwara Football Academy, top-level players as part of our youth development program which is intended to recruit budding talents, and that we are spreading our legs out with this agreement,” Japheth explained.
“This is a long-term partnership with KFA, It was a deal that has been in place for quite some time now but we decided to make it official through the announcement yesterday,” he added.
Ahead of the TCC season, the astute businessman admitted that there will be new players coming into the team.
“We will have more new players henceforth ahead of the new season.”
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The MOU will have a major focus on moving exceptional players from KFA to Valiant FC for further development and exposure to new opportunities as both parties will also share business ideas, templates for player development, and modern football management best practices.
Valiant FC is an emerging team in the international market by virtue of the recent and latest transfer of one of their groomed talent Akinsola Babatunde Jimoh to LaLiga side Real Valladolid and that as confirmed, they will continue to do; to give young players a platform to become world class players.
