The Speaker of Oyo State House of Assembly, Hon. Monsurat Sunmonu has given a talented young soccer player, Adelodun Usman, 14, a scholarship to nurture and further his career to become a future star at the Frenage Soccer Academy in Ibadan.
The Speaker, who personally handed the kid over to the management of the academy, said she noticed the innate soccer talent in the boy while playing street football in their neighbourhood in Oyo and decided to invest in his future like Lionel Messi who was discovered at a very early stage and enrolled to Barcelona Academy.
Sunmonu after inspecting the facilities being used by the academy inside Lead City University, Ibadan, pledged to extend the same gesture to many other talented kids within her constituency.
“I was also a sports prefect and an active sports person during my secondary school’s days, so I cherish a sporting talent in younger ones. I must tell you that I’m quite impressed with the standard and what I have seen at Frenage Soccer Academy here. I’m also assuring you that more talented youths from my constituency would also be spotted and sponsored to this academy, so that their soccer talent can be better polished and a path to their professional football career can be well established here”, the Speaker noted.
While receiving the scholarship recipient from the speaker, the CEO of Frenage, Prince Oluwole Ololade thanked Sunmonu for her benevolent gesture towards grassroots football development.
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