The Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium in Enugu will come alive from January
15 to 20, 2019 when blind football players converge on the former capital city
of the Eastern Region for a national trials being packaged by the Nigeria
Para-Athletics Federation in-conjunction with the BINA Foundation for Persons
with Special Needs.
Secretary
General of the Nigeria Para-Athletics Federation, Patrick Abobi, who disclosed
this, said the trial is aimed at selecting the players that would represent the
country at the forthcoming African Blind football championship in Abidjan, Cote
d’Ivoire later in the year.
He warned that the trials is purely for visually impaired
players and is open to all that fall within that category and advised those not
connected with blind football to stay clear of the trials.
He
appealed for a large turn out of players from where only the very best would be
selected to represent Nigeria.
Abobi
hinted that provision has been made for free feeding, medicals and local
transportation to ease movement of players within Enugu and its environs.
He added that those who excel at the end of the exercise would
be selected for the national team and invited to camp towards adequate
preparations for the continental football fiesta in Abidjan
According
to him, the federation is taking the continental championship very
seriously hence the collaboration with the BINA Foundation for Persons with
Special needs for an open and transparent trials in Enugu
The Para-Athletic Secretary General therefore
appealed to all talented but visually impaired football players to storm Enugu
for the exercise and warned that any player that did not turn
up for the the trials would not be part of the national team no matter how good
he may be.
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