Oleg Dziuba and Gianfranco Gazzoli, two of the foreign scouts at the 60 Goals Soccer Stars Talent-hunt Programme, on Sunday gave an acknowledgement of the abundance of football talents in Nigeria. The two scouts who participated in the just-ended Abuja centre of the talent-hunt programme told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the event was one of the best.
Dziuba, who is also the Ukrainian national under-21 chief coach, said he was amazed at the football talents which abound in Nigeria. “I’m totally overwhelmed by what we have seen so far. Highly impressed by the youngsters and I can assure that most of them are going to get foreign contracts as soon as possible,’’ he said. The coach observed that Nigeria and Ukraine have so many peculiarities and he was particularly impressed by the good and humanitarian attitude of Nigerians On his part, Gazzoli who is from Italy said the talent-hunt programme has turned out to be much better than he, the Ukrainian and the organisers had expected. “You have great talents in Nigeria. The youngsters we have seen so far are highly determined and they exhibit great confidence on the field of play. “Most of them are going to get clubs in Europe because the European clubs are always in need of African players, especially Nigerians, to come and prove their mettle,’’ he noted. Speaking also, Samuel Abimbola, a former national coach, praised the organisers of the event, 60 Goals Soccer Stars, for their diligence and adoption of the best practices during the screening exercise.
Source: Vanguardngr.com
