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2019 Badminton Clinic: 80 Players To Participate In Kwara
The Kwara State Badminton Coach, Bello Oyebanji has said that no fewer than 80 pupils and students would participate in the 2019 Badminton clinic in the state.
Oyebanji, who disclosed this at a news conference to herald the clinic, said on, yesterday in Ilorin that the clinic would take place from July 29 to August 7.
While giving a technical breakdown for the clinic, Oyebanji said there would be eight technical crew plus two secretariat staff on ground.
He said the kids would be taken through the fundamental techniques of the racket game which entries will start by Monday, July 29.
According to him, some of the techniques the participants would be taken through include Racket grip, Shuttle contact, Wall contact movement pattern among others.
Tidesports source reports that the clinic is being organised by the Kwara Badminton Association in conjunction with LMK Sports Ltd.
Fatai Salaudeen, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LMK Sports Ltd, said his passion for the racket game was the driving force behind the clinic.
Salaudeen, who is a former badminton player in the state, said he was well mentored by a couple of coaches in the state, hence the reason for sponsoring the clinic.
He assured would be participants that he would always give support to the sport and the association in the state and would do more to catch them young.
In his opening remarks, Alhaji Abdilwahab Oba, the chairman Local Organising Committee (LOC) thanked the sponsor for putting the event together.
He said the clinic was last held in 2009 and the described it as a way of discovering talents from the grassroots.
Oba, a former Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, explained that there would be a veteran game at the end of the clinic.
Malam Tunde Kazeem, the state Director of Sports, urged governments at all levels to invest in other sports and reduce over investment in football at the expense of other sports.
He commended the sponsor of the clinic and urged others rich individuals to emulate him for sports development support in the country.
Salaudeen later presented kits for the clinic to the LOC chairman and to Zainab Alabi, number 5 female badminton player in Nigeria.
England captain Harry Kane netted a hat-trick to guide Bayern Munich to an impressive victory against Stuttgart.
Kane’s goals, plus one from Kingsley Coman, helped Bayern end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
They faced a tough task against a Stuttgart side who sat back and limited their chances, leading Vincent Kompany’s side to enter the break frustrated and with the deadlock unbroken.
Bayern eventually found a way past Stuttgart’s steely defence when Kane drilled a low effort into the bottom corner from around 30 yards out after Joshua Kimmich overturned possession.
Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, is full of thanks to God after he miraculously survived another life-threatening automobile accident recent at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV.
Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday.
“To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger bus stop to get fuel on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, around 6 p.m. when this MACK truck fully loaded with iron, with registration number LND 470 XX, left the road and crushed my car beyond repairs. Thank God for life,” he stated.
This is the second time the soft-spoken club proprietor will cheat death by a whisker, having been involved in an accident in 1997 that ended his career at 23 and left his spinal cord in bad shape.
He helped Julius Berger win the Nigeria FA Cup in November 1997 shortly a memorable Olympic outing by keeping a clean sheet in the finals against Katsina United. The following year, he was involved in the auto along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, which not only cut his career short but also left him almost paralysed, ending his spell at Serie A club Reggiana.
The former Nigeria international, who also kept goal for Julius Berger FC, said the case has been reported to Isheri Police Station, Ogun State, where the driver is currently detained and the truck also seized.
According to him, the owner of the truck said he can’t fix the badly damaged SUV until after a year.
Ex – Super Eagles of Nigeria, Okwuchukwu Waobikeze has observed that sports development in Nigeria is going down.
According to him, grassroots sports is very important, without it, the administrators cannot get it right. So everybody should key into grassroots sports development, he said.
Waobikeze said this last Wednesday in an interview with sports journalists shortly after the Port Harcourt All Stars Independence football festival (OCTOBERFEST) at the Port Harcourt club, Rivers State.
He explained that for sports administrators to get it right, grassroots development is key. “They should be organising competition at the grassroots level to fish out the young ones for different sporting activities.
“Grassroots sports is very important so the administrators have to go back to the grassroots.
” Sports Development in Nigeria is going down we need to go back to the basics.
“Look at the just concluded Paris Olympics, Nigeria did not win any medal.
” Our football team did not even qualify for the Olympics. We are going down.
” If they should go back to the grassroots, they will get young ones in the games and talents will be developed.
” I started from school games, to youth games before playing for the national team. Now everybody wants to fly board to play professional football and a lot do not know the basics of the game.
” A lot of people did not know the little things about the game, they just want to play. It is not done so,” Waobikeze stated.
Kiadum Edookor