NPFL: Kwara United Will Be Ready For New Season – Dogo

Kwara United head coach, Kabiru Dogo is upbeat his team will do well in the Nigeria Professional Football League next season.

The Harmony Boys barely escaped relegation last season.

Dogo’s team recently started pre-season training.

Kwara United will take part in a pre-season tournament in Ikenne next week.

Dogo admitted his team’s late preparation but is confident that the players will be ready for the new season.

“The camping and pre-season is crucial to our preparations ahead of the upcoming season.

“The pre-season will serve as a build-up, as it will afford us the opportunity to re-assess the players we have picked so far.

“That is not to say that we will not be ready for the league. We have just concluded the first phase of preparations, and from our campaign in the ValueJet competition and other friendly matches, we will be certain to what level we will be ready by then,” he said in a chat with the club’s media.

The 2023/24 NPFL season will start on August 26.

28 ADSF  Players Storm Columbia, Maryland For Squash Summer Retreat

A total of 28 players made up of 21 Nigerians, two Ghanaians, two Zambians and three South African have arrived Columbia, Maryland for the second edition of the Squash Summer Retreat billed for July 28-30.

The players all based in America according to the African Diaspora Squash Foundation coordinators Tayo Koleosho and Femi Oredagba are participating in the second edition of the event.

They revealed that the retreat is for players between the ages of 16 to 90 years stating that they have are exploring the ways of how best they can get players back home to participate in an effort to help develop the sport.

“This is the second time it’s happening. It’s an annual event in which we are parading 21 Nigerians, 2 Ghanaians, 2 Zambians and 3 South Africans. The next event intends to bring Nigerian players to compete with a chance to give them international exposure,” they told a source.

The idea is that we hope with our participation, we would be able to get our players back home to join us with a view to giving the opportunity of playing with the best players from around the world. It will boost the standard of play and help develop the game at the grassroots.

“Our players deserve exposure and a chance of being in the best facilities that are available. The Squash Summer Retreat is meant to create exposure for Africans that play/ coach squash in the diaspora,” Tayo Koleosho added.

Koleosho, a member of the Ibadan Recreation Club stated that he wants to see ways of assisting young players that that are eager to have a career in the game of squash in which others have excelled in the past.