Former Super Eagles Player and La Liga Ambassador, Mutiu Adepoju said a bright footballing career awaits the stars of the Higher Institution Football League, HIFL sportspedalng.blogspots.com can report.
He made this assertion in Ibadan,When he was answering questions from journalists after watching the games.
The mercurial midfielder, nicknamed the headmaster is confident that in no distant time some of the stars discover will represent Nigeria at international competitions.
He disclosed that the HiFL will help to revive the passion around school football and School sports in Nigeria, and expressed confidence that in no distant time some of the lads who perform excellently might get called up to play for the national team.
"No more competitions in schools,right from primary schools and secondary schools during our time then we used to have lots of competition.
we grew with that and we were developed that way but this time arround its be lagging i believe that with HiFL coming there will be more school competitions,there will be more interest from the students to play football and to do sports not only football with that i believe as time goes on we can have good players in the national team."
The HIFL started in 2018 and has been a ground for burden talents to expose their talents for scouting for bigger things.
The current striker of Kano pillars ,Emeka Ebuka was the highest goal scorer of the HIFL in 2018 and his goals have helped Kano pillars qualified for 2019/2020 Confederation of Africa Football Champions League ,CAFCLafter winning the silver medal of the 2019 NPFL championship playoffs as well as qualify the Kano b ased team for the finals of the Federation of Cup .
Many other players have secured professional contracts with NPFL and NNL teams as well semi professional sides across the country.
HiFL® is organised by PACE Sports and Entertainment Marketing in partnership with the Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA).
The league is proudly sponsored by Stanbic IBTC, Premier Cool and Indomie Nigeria.
The top 32 Universities from NUGA-member institutions will play over a period of 21 weeks, with the final four billed for the Agege Stadium, Lagos.
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