5 Football Academies In Nigeria I Can Recommend to You Now!

A lot of young aspiring footballers and their parents have sent emails to me and  some call my phone, asking me to recommend a football academy in the country that can help groom youngsters into world class football stars.

There are quite a number of good academies in Nigeria, some popular ones like Pepsi Academy, Kwara State Football Academy, Abuja Football College and the likes. But if you ask me to recommend to you those I know can really gr~oom players and help them jump start a professional football career, then I will recommend these five academies. They are some of the best in Nigeria today and I will tell you why?

1. FC Bescola is an  academy located at Teslim Balogun Stadium Surulere, own and run by FC Barcelona Spain. The academy have well qualified world class coaches that groom youngsters with the Barcelona culture and style of play.

Yearly, selected players of the academy go on training tour to Spain, during the FC Barcelona festival. The outstanding players are directly drafted into FC Barcelona main youth team and others to teams around Europe. This is why I recommend FC Bescola to any upcoming player.
More information about FC Bescola: http://fcbescola.fcbarcelona.com/lagos/

2. Great Olympics Football Academy is located at Former National Stadium Surulere Lagos, Own by Sal Ruff Sports International. The owner and trainer Salau Abiodun is Caf Licensed coach and uses Total Soccer Method (TSM) to groom his boys. The players are exposed to several kind of pitches: grass pitch, Artificial (Synthetic) pitch, Sand (beach like) pitch, which makes the players good at any turf you take them to.

Great Olympics academy go for trial tours in Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Qatar...and the academy has helped several players go for trials abroad..
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3.  Emmanuel Amunike Football Academy is located at Ezioboh Owerri Imo state and FHA pitch Festac Town Lagos; owned  by Ex-Nigeria International and now Head Coach of Tanzania, Emmanuel Amunike and supported by his brother Kingsley Amunike to move outstanding players in the academy to clubs in Europe.

Enrolling in academy is one of the easiest way to get into Nigeria U16 national team, Golden Eaglets and U21 national team, Flying Eagles. Players like Emmanuel Nwakire, John Nwachukwu... were selected from the academy. This is why I recommend the academy to you.

4. Buruji Soccer Academy is another very good academy located in Ogonoto Ikorodu Lagos. owned by the the younger brother of the business mogul Buruji Kashamu.The academy pride themselves with teach advance football skills that can put you ahead any where in the world is one that expose players a lot. They travel abroad twice yearly to participate in top football  tournaments and festivals.

Buruji academy has won several tournaments like Super Cup Dubai, Manchester United Youth Cup....
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5. Kanu Football Academy popularly known as Papilo Football Academy is located at Uzii Layout playground in Owerri Imo State, own by Nigerian football legend Nwankwo Kanu. The academy have well qualified coaches and often travel abroad to play tournaments.

With Kanu's connections several of the outstanding players in the academy have travelled abroad for trials and some signed for clubs in Europe.. This is the reason I recommend the academy.
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