Rivers
State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, has held a preparatory meeting with
officials of Interact Sports and Real Madrid Campus Experience in Madrid,
Spain, as part of the process to set up a Football Academy that would be
affiliated to the club.
The meeting was a
prelude to today’s tour of Real Madrid’s training facilities by Wike
and his team, which includes Commissioner of Sports, Boma Iyaye,
former Nigerian international, Adokiye Amiesimaka, Majority Whip of Rivers
State House of Assembly, Evans Bipi, and member of Rivers State Senior
Secondary School Board, Chief Hanny Woko.
The governor said
setting up the football academy is in the interest of the state as it hopes to
groom the next generation of stars. Vice President of
Interact Sports, Kazma, said that the group was happy to be working with the
Rivers state Government to actualise the goal of setting up the academy and
assured football stakeholders that the academy would be run in line with
international best practices, to groom footballers who would graduate to become
international stars.
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