Remo Stars unveil new stadium in preparation to host CAF match

Remo Stars have expressed readiness to host CAF Confederation Cup video games at their stadium in Ikenne-Remo, Ogun State.

The Secretary of the membership, Michael Onikute, who made this recognized, stated all the pieces has been put in place to make sure the success of Remo Stars throughout a media tour.

Within the Confederation Cup fixtures, Remo Stars who completed third in final season’s Nigeria Skilled Soccer League will face 2010 champions AS FAR.

Through the media tour, officers of the membership confirmed journalists among the amenities that make the Remo Soccer Academy stand out.

A few of them are 56 rooms of junior and senior gamers’ lodging for 112 footballers, 5 semi-detached blocks (10 models) of two-bedroom coaches’ lodging, a eating/kitchen block for gamers and officers, and an administrative block (workplaces, convention room, coaching classroom, reception). With Panoramic Elevate to the first-floor desk tennis centre.

Others are sports activities centre block comprising gymnasium, clinic, swimming pool, hydrotherapy chambers, 30 rooms lodge with panoramic raise, one match pitch with 10,000 capability coated pavilions, three coaching pitches, 2, 000 properly completed automobile parks, safety maned atmosphere (fenced, police, native safety guards), good inside roads and exterior perimeter roads, world-class scoreboard, VAR software program, normal WiFi web service, and principal seating pavilion with well-furnished dwelling and away altering rooms, coaches rooms, officers rooms.

Whereas explaining the inspiration behind constructing a world-class stadium, he stated, “The development of our magnificent soccer academy commenced about 3 years in the past and we simply began utilizing it from the yr 2021.

“Over time, we have now been transferring from one stadium to the opposite. From Ijebu-Ode in 2014-2015 to Sagamu within the 2016-17 season once we bought promoted to the premier league.

We bought relegated that season, the following season we had been capable of finding our method into the premier league and that very same season, we bought relegated. At that time, we reviewed what might be the most important problem regardless of having high quality gamers and coaches.

“We realised that we had been enjoying on a foul pitch. So, matter what you do or the proper organisation that you’ve or the calibre of participant that you’ve, the pitch is a significant factor in soccer and it grew to become crucial that the administration wanted to place that in place, and it grew to become crucial that we have now an ordinary stadium. That’s the genesis of the magnificent constructing we have now right here in Ikenne.”

Additionally, an official of Remo Stars Social Soccer and Mates Membership, Dehinde Shonibare, famous that former internationals and officers of the Nigerian Soccer Federation had been delighted at the usual of the stadium.

The stadium, our gamers and administration are our delight. NFF officers and ex-internationals which have been right here had been blown away. They’ve all seen what this place is made from, and so they all gave a thumbs up for everybody concerned in placing this collectively.”

Reacting, a coordinator of RSFFC, Afolabi Kazeem, stated, “The stadium is prepared for the intercontinental masterpiece. We’re assured in our gamers and by God’s grace, we’ll win the cup.

“Like myself, it has been a dream to see our beloved membership play an intercontinental recreation on this pitch. Lastly, our dream would quickly come to actuality. I’m positive the turnout shall be huge and CAF shall be happy with us after the sport.”