JURIS FC, main organisers of the ongoing football scouting tournament is collaborating with foreign agent Marcelo Houseman and former Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia to discover talents and promote unity in the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that JURIS FC is a club formed by Niyi Ayoola Daniels, a football lawyer who is interested in helping young talented boys achieve their dreams of becoming football stars.
Through his club, he aims to nurture, train and develop talents whilst working with powerful personalities such as Samson Siasia to help coach these talents and foreign scout and player manager like Marcelo Houseman who will discover these talents and set up a trail brazer future for them.
Ayoola-Daniels, the founder of JURIS FC and Football Lawyers International, who spoke to NAN on the sidelines of the tournament said his trajectory was expressing love and passion for youth development and talent hunting in the football constituency.
He said he had organised several talent hunt programmes in the FCT and discovered alot of talents in the past but decided to do something a little bit different to give it a national flavour this time around.
He said that in order to ensure that he achieved excellence in the whole venture, he also decided to bring on board one of FIFA’s top class football scout / licensed agent, Marcelo Houseman.
He explained that the talent hunt/scouting programme was just the first phase of the tournament as he aims to host other grand tournaments starting from the next tournament scheduled to take place in January 2025.
He revealed that Juris FC has already purchased a strategically located land measuring over seven hectares with Certificate of Occupancy to commence the construction of its own first class football training ground which would be purpose-built to accommodate its players, giving them the best facilities to sharpen their football skills and perform exceedingly well.
He explained that JURIS FC, working with Marcelo Houseman and Samson Siasia will ensure that discovered players will go through a phase of talent grooming, nurturing and development, in order to horne their skills and refine their mental as well as physical capabilities.
Houseman, who has worked with several African players and discovered amongst others, the likes of Samuel Chukwueze, Obinna Nsofor, Odion Ighalo, Solomon Okoronkwo, Dr Khumalo, Lucas Radebe, Nonda Shabani, John Mosheou, Philemon Masinga
Steve Kompela, Tebogo Moloi, Mauricio Taricco, Esteban Fuertes, Víctor Ferreyra, Jairo Martinez and currently working with Amara Diouf, currently the best young player in Africa, said a lot of talents abound in Nigeria.
Samson Siasia, former Super Eagles coach while commending the efforts of Barr Ayoola- Daniels and JURIS FC said the scouting programme was strictly for Under 18 players, adding that only right players would be selected and well groomed to start their footballing career abroad.
No fewer than six teams from across the country are taking part in the programme.
They include; Shooting Stars of Ibadan feeder team, SiaOne Football Academy, Galadima FC, the Guards Brigade team, Phoenix FC and Unique Stats FC. (NAN)