PEPSI FOOTBALL ACADEMY HOLDS FESTIVAL OF YOUTH

PFA Team,, Abeokuta

It was a beehive of activities when youngsters from Pepsi Footfall Academy converged at the Agege Multi-purpose Stadium, Lagos for this year’s Pepsi Festival of Youths. The youngsters from all the academy centres scattered across major cities in Nigeria were excited and full of energy for the competition.

Players for the intra-academy competition for both U15 and U17 categories were drawn from all the Pepsi Academy training centres nationwide competing in four zonal format: North, East, West and Lagos.

Speaking on the occasion of the festival, Director of Pepsi Football Academy, Dr. Kasimawo Laloko said the idea of the festival is the bring both coaches and players in the different centres of the academy together to celebrate the competition as one big family.

“The aim of the Pepsi Festival of Youth is to assess the discipline and skills development level of the players from all the centres and also offer them opportunity to socialize among themselves”, Dr. Laloko said.

The first match in the U15 category saw East cruise past North on penalty shoot out after a one all draw at full time. While Lagos had a comfortable win of two goals to one against their West counterpart.

In the U18 category, Kaduna team humbled Aba team with four goals to nil while Lagos team beat the Football College team by two goals.

Matches for day two of the festival will see North verses West  for third place and East will play against Lagos for the finals in the U15 category. While Aba will play Football College for third place and Kaduna will compete for the finals with Lagos team in the U18 category.

The grandfinale for this year’s Pepsi Festival of Youth will come to a climax with an award/dinner night on Saturday 30^th November at the Lagos Airport Hotel.