TINAPA – NIGERIA
Jul 29th, 2008 by admin
The just concluded soccer fiesta in Tinapa, Nigeria marked a wonderful beginning for soccer in the country. It featured English Premier League and UEFA Champions League winners, Manchester United FC; English FA Cup winner, Portsmouth FC; Nigeria’s Super Eagles and one of the 20 teams in the Globacom Premier League.
The event, the first of its kind in the country will certainly add to the value of football development in Africa. For many of the English players who had never been to Africa, it was an opportunity to interact with Nigerian home based players. Manager of English FA CUP Champions, Portsmouth of England, Harry Redknapp extolled the Tinapa invitational fiesta as a fantastic project, “I have never been to Africa but thanks to Tinapa, I am here and I have seen first hand the continent that has produced so many great players.