FOLSA set to represent Nigeria at World Secondary Schools Championship in Rabat

The championship which is organized by the International School Sport Federation (ISF) will be held from July 22nd  to 31st, 2023.

The Academy is representing Nigeria as the current champions of the National Principals’ Cup, with Karshi based Academy is drawn in Group G made up of the Czech Republic, Morocco, Peru, and Nigeria.

The Abuja-based Academy have dominated the football event at the FCT chapter of All Secondary School Games in the past six years.

However, the Academy needs Nigerians to adopt and facilitate its participation on the global stage and Godwin Bamigboye who is heads, FOSLA Academy Action Committee on the World School Football Championship outing.

According to him, the academy should be seen as a Nigeria Project that all hands should be on deck to actualize this great opportunity.

He explained that within a space of 12 years, FOSLA Academy has made visible and tangible progress and achievement in academics and Sports.

The sports administrator further stated that among all other verifiable achievements, FOSLA Academy’s overwhelming performance in the National Principals’ Cup also brought to the limelight Onuche Ogbelu who as an SS3 student played for the Flying Eagles at the 2023 AFCON U20.

He emphasized that the bulk of talented players in FOSLA Academy are on scholarships because they are students with indigent backgrounds as he commended the School’s Proprietor, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi, former President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for his deliberate effort to reach out to the less privileged through the offer of scholarships to these talented but indigent students up to University level.

Bamigboye, therefore, called on the Federal Government, public and private organizations including philanthropic-minded Nigerians to join hands in helping FOSLA Academy to emerge champions of the 2023 edition of the World School Football Championship.