IGSDA Strikes Partnership With LA Galaxy

The Independent
Grassroots Sports Development Association, IGSDA, Nigeria, has formed an alliance with America’s Major League’s, MLS, Football Club, LA Galaxy through an Abeokuta based football management and sponsorship organisation, Churchill Oliseh Agency.
According to the president and founder of IGSDA, Ambassador Miebi Ogunu in a chat on Monday, the partnership will see the grassroots association source for young talents for the feeders team of the Amercia clubside.
He lauded the new relationship and described it as a veritable platform for talented players from Nigeria to play in the United States and other countries across the globe. The President stated that IGSDA’s coaches also stand to exploit the platform by discovering new talents and traning them in line with international best practices in football.
Ogunu said, “In tandem with our vision to discover, develop and distribute talented young players for local and international consumption, IGSDA is calling for partnership with clubs and coaches within the country to extract maximum benefit from the platform”.
“So far, he continued, a handful of players discovered by IGSDA, who have fulfilled the required conditions for the LA Galaxy FC would be arriving the agency’s transitional camp in Lagos soon, where they would be given proper orientation and counselling before moving to foreign clubs.
On the association’s readiness to feeding the foreign team with talents, Ogunu said, “we have been organising local friendly matches within the 23 local government areas in Rivers State to select good players that would meet the standards of the Churchwill Oliseh Agency.
‘Our nucleus team in the state is named the Dream Team, and they have played several matches in which they posted brilliant performaces. Our last match was against scored giant FC of Rumuokwurusi which we won by a lone goal scored by Golden Eaglets invitee, Anselm Igbo”.
The president disclosed that the dream team will play Sharks FC’s Feeder Team on Friday and called on interested youngsters eager to make a career in the game to explore opportunities available within the association.