How Amosun’s wife discovered Eaglet’s goalkeeper

Akpan Udoh, one of the players of the UPLIFT Football Team, sponsored on soccer training to the Udinese Football Club in Italy by the Wife of the Governor of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun in 2013, is currently making waves at the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile 2015.Udoh, who is Nigeria’s number one goalkeeper at the ongoing tournament, was one of the 22 young football players discovered by Mrs. Amosun’s football talent hunt programme in 2013.The UPLIFTing Under-15 Grassroot Football Talent-hunt was organised by the Wife of the Governor of Ogun State during the 2013 Easter holiday amongst all public secondary school students in Ogun State.For the whole duration of the training, elimination and selection process, the competition had in attendance the likes of Mr. Jim Colston, a renowned scout for the English Premiership League in the United Kingdom and Nigeria’s celebrated ex-international, Chief Olusegun Odegbami, as well as Football Ambassador, Mr. John Fashanu.Talents discovered at the competition were then sponsored by the UPLIFT Development Foundation (Mrs. Amosun’s Foundation) to Udinese Football Club, Italy, for a two-week training camp.,,Thesunnews