Oyo FA Worries Over Academy Facilities

The Oyo State Football Association has expressed surprise at the modern facilities at the new site of Ibadan-based FRENAGE-Progression International Soccer Academy.

Tidesports gathered reports that representatives of the state FA expressed their feelings during a facility tour of the site on Monday in Ibadan.

The team was led by the chairman of its Technical Committee, Idowu Oloyede, and the assistant secretary, Kehinde Ojelowo.

Impressed by the highly sophisticated equipment provided at the site, the team described it as the best anybody could find in any standard football academy, even in Europe.

“The Oyo FA is proud and lucky to have such highly equipped football academy within its domain,’’ Oloyede told newsmen after the tour.

Oloyede then saluted the efforts of the firm for bringing an academy of international repute, with foreign technical personnel from England to manage it.

“We were astonished when we got here, seeing the level of investment and quality of the facilities provided here for the take-off of this football academy.

“We cannot but commend and pledge our loyalty on any area we might be able to complement their efforts.

“This is what we are preaching to people who claim to have the love of football at heart— to invest in the future of the game, with the establishment of this international standard soccer academy here in Nigeria.

“From what we were told by the management of FRENAGE-Progression, this academy will be managed by experts from England with an UEFA licensed Coach, Tony Calver, as its Head Coach.

“What else could anybody want in a standard academy that this place will not offer,” said the Oyo FA technical officer.

According to him, there is no need for anybody going to Ghana or any other West African country looking for standard, when it is present here.