Nigerian music star, Burna Boy sets up football academy, reality show for grass root footballers
Nigerian music star, Burna Boy sets up football academy, reality show for grass root footballers
By Abdulgafar Oladimeji
Popular Nigerian music actor, Burna Boy has established soccer academy for the discovery and nurturing of talented grass root footballers, in his home country, Nigeria.
The music icon said the motive behind the establishment of the academy is to give unnoticed talented footballers access to the scarce platform that has denied potential footballers the chance to achieve their dreams of becoming professional players.
Checks revealed that the academy will be operating in FCT Abuja and Port Harcourt, the capital city of the oil rich Rivers state , in south south , Nigeria, news sources said that , Burna Boy football academy would serve as a football scouting platform for talent seeking top European football clubs.
Burna Boy is also warming up , for the flagging off of football reality show that is geared towards promoting raw football talents as part of his investments in youth development and empowerment initiative.