‘We Are Ready To Connet 100 Osun Youths For International Opportunities Yearly’ – Football Agent, Muhammed Mustapha

‘No fewer than one hundred Youths who are residents of Osun State will benefit yearly in international opportunities starting from this year.

This benefits would be through sports or various opportunities outside the sores of Nigeria especially, in Asia and Europe.

A football agent who is also the Technical Director of Liway Football Club, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Mr Muhammed Mustapha disclosed this in Osogbo while addressing journalists on the activities of the agency in Osun State.

He said his agency discover, develop and connect talents and was ready to change the fortunes of Nigerian Youths particularly, residents of Osun State in order for them to give back to the society.

Mustapha noted that many a youth have in the eastern and northern parts of the country have enjoyed the gesture and now it was extended to his State of origin, Osun.

According to him scouting for football talents in Osun had begun at the Obafemi Awolowo University Stadium, while it would be the turn of Ilesa on Sunday, August 8 and the grand finale in Osogbo on Monday and Tuesday, 9th and 10th August, 2021 respectively.

He said, “We are here to unveil a project call ‘sports and More’. The aim of the project is to empower the youths of Osun State, First, through sport and other career being whether training as a fashion designer, Barbers, as many as career out there that we can help them with.

“What we want to do is categorically 80% sport, after examining critically, we thought it is wise also to use our connections To help the youth of Osun State on securing jobs that they will use to fall back to the society and help the state, build the state.

“So when I am talking about jobs, I’m not talking about jobs in Nigeria, I am talking about international jobs and before we commence this, we have traveled so many countries, I have been to Kuwait, Qatar etc and we have build a relationship with organizations and companies.

“Now, we want to come back home and help our youths, to connect them with all these companies in one way or the other. It not only about football, but definitely, when we say sports, sport presently is the third religion we have in the universe.

Mohammed explained that the opportunities brought for the youths in Osun transcends sports, adding that the artisans who are ready to work abroad would also benefits.

“When we talk sport everybody comes out, it means it the key to unity. So we are using sport as a platform, of course as a club owner, we have a scouting event in our project of which we are starting in Ife.

“I am not just an ordinary agent that will just come down and pick and connect with club, what agents does is that they come down, they pick a player, they connect the player the club, it now for the club to accept the player or say no. But I’m a club owner, a technical director of a club. All I need to do is to pick a player and get him in my club at worst.

“If will pick two persons from Osogbo, I don’t need to start looking for club to take them to, I will just call the coach of my club and say, I have two players and I’m sending them. They will just go there straight and sign without trial. So I’m trying to differentiate myself from other scouting event that happens in states in Nigeria.

“For some people who are familiar with our agency, they would have gone through our website and see our numerous players that have traveled here and there, some in Ukraine, some in Poland, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany etc. Last year, I was in Kano State where we organised an event, we partner some top staffs form Kano State, we picked 15 of the boys, in fact we partner with one of their university there, so the event was done in the university of Kano, and as I speak to you right.”

The football agent disclosed that a Nigeria football legend, Kanu Nwakwo who grace the grand finale of the scouting event in Osogbo.