Rising Stars Project Manager Admonishes Stakeholders To Invest In Youth , Grassroots Football

The Project Manager, Rising Stars Football League , RSFL, Abuja, Mr Ifeanyi Kama, has called on Nigerians to invest in grassroots football to aids the discovery of budding talents in the grassroots.

Kama said bringing young minds from nowhere attracts optimum benefits.

The Abuja based football icon stated this during a weekly interview via WhatsApp group, Sports World Platform , with the theme “Super Interview”, co anchored by Ibadan based Sports journalist, Sunday Agunbiade, popularly known as Mr VAR and Lagos based journalist, Wale Oye.

The soft spoken administrator advocated for continued youth engagement which will be in form of catch them young , saying this would give them a sense of direction.

He stressed the need to create a viable and sustainable league format that would be churning out talents monthly or quarterly for marketing drive.

According to him,
“Our 1994 and 1996 squads were predominantly products of grassroots and we can still get Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo this world in our league if we can really go deeper with the intention of investing in them “

Ifeanyi added that some players had secured contracts abroad through Rising Stars Project , urging relevant stakeholders to replicate same in their domain. “I think there is need to engage youths the more as good number of our boys have already traveled abroad from Rising Stars Football league.

“Some of those discovered from Rising Stars league have already traveled abroad. Imagine, if we did not present such opportunity, what do you think would have happened to their talents? Ifeanyi Kama asked rhetorically.