Pepsi Academy In Search Of Young Talents

The Pepsi Academy in Abuja has organised a football competition to discover talented footballers under 17 years.

National zonal coordinator of the academy’s talent hunt, Emmanuel Ogaba told newsmen that the competition was organised to search for outstanding players.

“This is an initiative of the management of the Pepsi Academy.

“The competition was organised in order to fish out talented players who will be co-opted into the under 17 national team,’’ he said.

Ogaba explained that the initiative would be a continuous process and not a one-off competition.

“We intend to organise this competition every year. We are here to see to the success of these young ones.

“You are aware that age competition is in contention in our nation today, most of our talented players don’t succeed because they lie about their age.

“So, we are trying to put all that in check,’’ he said.

In one of the matches of the week-long competition played at Tundun Wada Secondary School football pitch, Abuja, Academy FC defeated Jos Academy FC as the match ended 3-2.

John Jethro opened scoring for Abuja Academy in the 15th minute and added a second in the 26th minute of the match.

However,  Daniel Simeon and Chidi Ani of Jos Academy FC got the equaliser in the 28th minute and 42 minute respectively.

But  Precious Macrock secured the winning goal for Abuja in the 87th minute of the tough encounter.

The competition which kicked off on Tuesday will end next week.