Coordinator Charges Directors On Grassroots Talents

The Zonal Coordinator, South-South Director of Sports, Sonny Obot has urged the states within the region to go back to the grassroots, pick and groom athletes that can represent their states at the next edition of the National Youth Games (NYG).
Obot made the call during an all South-South sports directors meeting held at the Alfred Diette Spiff Sports Complex, Port Harcourt.
According to him, most athletes were screened out from the NYG competition due to issues of overaged not being eligible to compete for the competition, saying that about 90-95 percent of athletes were able to scale through the screening.
Speaking on recommendation on the screening exercise done in Ilorin, Kware State, at the NYG, Obot who was also member of the screening committee said recommendation will follow the report from the committee to be improved upon.
“The people who did the screening will give their report and recommendation will follow to be improved upon subsequently”, Obot said.
He however, said that with what he saw in Bayelsa State with wrestling, Nigeria will win medals at the next Olympic, saying that, the athletes were purely under 15.
“If all states would do this, sports will get to the desired height in the regions and the country at large”, Obot added.
Meanwhile, the meeting was attended by five states directors in the south-south except for Cross River.