21/02/2025
Dear Grassroot Coaches,
Plz advise ur players to learn a skill while playing football... Don't be the Coach who tells ur players that football is a jealous job that doesn't need distraction. It's a big lie. Mandate them to go to school while playing football or at least learn other skills. By so doing they have alternative source of income to also ease the stress they put on u and their parents ... In my team, I have two final year law students, some engineering students, pub admin students, I have artisan workers, I have barber, graphic designers, a computer guru and printer, I have a newly recruited detective, a mechanic, ball repairer, and a fashion designer...
Plz let them know the truth that not all of them will make it thru football. It has destroyed a lot. Go to different All Stars teams and u see for urself, people football has frustrated. U fit play more than okocha still won't have the opportunity to earn thru the game. Some earn thru the game but don't have right investment plans and after their football career, they became bankrupt.
Make it mandatory! Insist! Go out of ur way to help them find something doing...
Plz! Parents also let ur wards know that if they must play ball, they must also learn a skill to support it or go to school....
Dalu kwanu!
ifeanyi kanu