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Antoeni:
But it's The Fact , No Diddy No Grammy

To enter heaven mo sure for you again with this pix wey you post. I bust into laughter

Na wetin the system require na him we go give am.

You can't be too gentle in Nigeria.

Mix that spirit with coffee and you are good to go.

Aristotleabiodu:
🇳🇬 THE TRUTH ABOUT FOOTBALL ACADEMIES IN NIGERIA – AN INSIDER’S VIEW

Nairaland, let's talk real football development.

I'm Oluwatosin Abiodun Falae, Chairman of a football academy here in Ekiti State. After 10 years in youth football development and as an England FA-certified Talent ID scout, I've seen it all – the hype, the false promises, and the real pathways that actually work.

Let me break down what parents and young players NEED to know:

🚨 5 RED FLAGS IN A FAKE FOOTBALL ACADEMY

They promise European contracts in 6 months – Real development takes 2-3 years minimum.
No certified coaches – Look for FA, UEFA, or NFF licenses.
All talk, no facilities – If they train on a bad pitch with no equipment, walk away.
No clear pathway – Ask: "Where have your past players gone?" Get specific names.
Pressure for huge fees upfront – Professional academies have structured, reasonable payment plans.
✅ WHAT A REAL ACADEMY SHOULD OFFER (EKITI STANDARD)

Based on international best practices:

Structured Training Program:

Technical drills (not just playing matches)
Tactical education
Physical conditioning
Video analysis sessions
Verified Scout Network:

Direct contacts with clubs (not just "agents"
Regular scout visits (ask for proof)
Professional player profiles and highlight reels
Player Welfare:

Medical check-ups
Educational support
Proper nutrition guidance
Mental conditioning
Transparent Fees:

Clear breakdown of costs
No hidden "agent fees"
Payment plans available
📊 MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE (EKITI CONTEXT)

The Good:

Nigerian youth football talent is world-class
European clubs are actively scouting here
Costs can be manageable with proper planning
The Challenges:

Poor facilities across most states (Ekiti improving slowly)
Many "academies" are just businesses with no real connections
Parents often get exploited with false promises
The Solution:

Due diligence – Visit multiple academies
Ask for documentation – Certificates, past success stories
Talk to former players – Not just the academy owner
🎯 FOR PARENTS IN EKITI/ONDO/OSUN AREA

If you have a talented child (8-18 years):

Questions to ask ANY academy:

"Can I see your NFF/FA certification?"
"Which scouts visited you last year?"
"Can you show me 3 players you helped move to professional clubs?"
"What's your injury protocol?"
"How do you balance football and education?"
💡 FREE ADVICE FOR YOUNG PLAYERS

Education first – Never drop out of school for football
Video is everything – Record your matches professionally
Specialize early – What's your ONE best position?
Physical fitness – European scouts test speed and endurance first
Mental toughness – Rejection is part of the journey
🤝 LET'S DISCUSS – NO HYPE, JUST FACTS

Nairaland, I'm opening this thread for real discussion:

Share your academy experiences (good or bad)
Ask specific questions about football development
Parents, what are your biggest concerns?
Coaches, what challenges do you face in Nigeria?
Players, what do you wish academies provided?
NO self-promotion – this is about improving Nigerian football together.

📞 FOR SERIOUS ENQUIRIES ONLY

If you're in Ekiti State and want genuine guidance (not promises):

WhatsApp: 0808 319 1134 (serious inquiries only)
I respond to specific questions: "How do I get scouted?" "What academy is real in my area?"
Tags: #EkitiFootball #NigeriaAcademy #YouthFootball #FootballScouts #NFF #EkitiSports #FootballTraining #SoccerNigeria #GrassrootsFootball #AfricanTalent

📌 ADMIN NOTE

This is an educational post from a certified football professional. Let's keep the discussion constructive and help improve Nigerian football standards together.

Share to help a parent or young player avoid mistakes. ⚽🇳🇬

I have a FIFA agent license. I'll come back to read this again

Dem sha wan dey pepper this Alaafin of Oyo Empire.

Oyo Empire wey dem don conquer centuries ago...you want dey claim powers wey no exist.

Emperor wey Governor give employment letter and wey dey collect salary and Governor fit sack like Emir of Kano Sanusi.

Wisdom is indeed paramount. Him go learn by force.

NFBI:
I don’t even know why I’m still holding on. I wake up every morning feeling like I’m carrying the weight of the world. My parents are getting older, my siblings depend on me, and my salary doesn’t even cover half of what I owe.

I used to dream of a life where I could breathe, laugh, maybe travel, but now I can barely sleep. I’ve lost friends because I can’t afford to go out. I cry sometimes in the dark, but nobody sees.

I feel invisible. I try to pray, I try to hope, but every day just reminds me that I am alone in this fight. I don’t know how much longer I can keep pretending that I’m okay.

People who have gone through something like this… how did you survive yours in this country?

Na money matter be the problem. So the question is how do you make more money to take care of your needs and have spare to spend or invest.


The money you are earning today is based on the value you bring to the market place. The value you bring to the market place is dependent on the skills you have acquired.

My advice to you is to go learn a skill that is in top demand in any field of your choice.

When you are done learning, use that skill to get a better means of making more money.

Your problem go solve.

Freshtruth:
Look man is now Nigerian star player the African player of the year wey make oshimen dey misbehave he done win am. He left Atalanta after helping them to destroy Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa league final now is going to Spanish giant Athletico Madrid. Why osbimen is in retirement league all his mates are in EPL instead of him to lower is salary he allowed Africans n his agent to brain wash him the he is up there with the bests. Fenabache offer lookman 16 billionaire per year but look man drop it for passion. Somebody your poverty background made U miss Chelsea earlier and man UTD this season

You self know sey you no be better person.

lailo:
Ogbeni, money is what make people associate with u not nice posture. If u poor even those children u dey carry for head like Galla go deny you. Imagine your mama tell u now say na Bill gate be your father, u no go find am. Closeness go naturally flow bcs of money. I know a man my uncle whose wife left 41 days old baby and 2 years old toddler in his care and left. The man was the one who single handedly brought them up, nobody helped him. When the man old, the two children no send am, na my papa his younger brother go dey take care of him on sick bed till he died. The children were busy looking for their mother. Someone who fled looking for greener pasture. You wan follow woman dey drag children? Kwantiniu

I hope you know the world does not begin and end in Nigeria.

The way Nigerians lock the ass of anyone with small money is unique in the whole wide world.

Na so una dey embarrass una self when. Ispeed come Nigeria.

If you bond with your children as kids and actually have a relationship with them, they will remain with you all your life.

Wether you have loads of money or not is irrelevant.

lailo:
I guess Dangote, Elon musk, Otedola, Tinubu etc get time to dey bath their children. Only poor man dey fear old age, bcs they see children as fall back on. Get money, even your children will not want u to die at 100 years.

Do you know how many of Tinubu's children are drug addicts or deviants

Do you know of the first son that committed suicide abi OD'd on cocaine

We are talking of your adult children having a healthy RELATIONSHIP with you because you were involved in their lives as children not about wether you want to be dependent on them or not.

Na people like you wey never see any meaningful money before see money as everything...and of course the sycophantic society that you live in encourages you to do so.

Shey na America wey everybody get chance to get anything wey him want as long as your credit is good na him dem go dey beg beg like beggars.

lailo:
There is a reason a man is the bread winner. You can never have those times u put up there. We deceive ourselves a lot in this country. Men and women responsibilities in the home are different and are meant to complement each other. It is pure evil for one to take the advantage of the other. If I'm always on the field looking for daily bread and u have the advantage to be in the home with the children, the woman should not take advantage. Is it that difficult?

I know you are not married with kids. So I won't bother going back and forth with you.

If he reach your turn, do am as you like. When you grow older and you are a just like stranger to your adult children, you would wish you had given them more of your precense than the presents you bought for them.

May we not repeat the mistakes of those who have gone before us.

Benefits of plating good football.

The top national teams will come knocking on your doors.

We used to call them grade A friendlies back then.

The likes of England, Holland ,Brazil used to come to us for friendly match.

ruggedtimi:
I don’t support the father’s actions. However, speaking from experience as a single father, whenever my daughter goes to stay with her mother, she rarely answers my calls and often lies about their location just to prevent me from accessing my child. Honestly, it’s not as easy as people think. Sometimes she makes it feel like we’re in a competition. Now imagine if your child doesn’t even live with you at all.

Even the ones wey we dey house will try poison the children against the father little by little.

If you are the kind of father that does not play with the children and has no bond with them, she will succeed in gradually turning them against you.

If you know you want a friendly relationship with your adult children., be involved in their lives as children
bathe them, feed them, buy what they need and directly give it to them, help them with their homework and be available for them to talk to you about their lives.

If not as they grow older you will become a stranger that is merely being tolerated in your own house.

After you do all this make sure you take care of your own physical and emotional needs as well and plan for living by yourself or with a caretaker as you age.

Women are something else entirely. But if you have enough money to thrive on, it won't be that bad.

Tabletuner:
What’s it with this looses after AFCON?

You see this life ehnnn, once you are in the public eyes, just dey pray seriously or make you get somebody wey dey run am for you.

Some people are evil in nature and their mouth carry wicked diabolical authority.

As Ndidi become Captain and talk sey he go pay the match bonus if nff refuse to pay as agreed, I know sey wicked people go put eye for him body.

Chukwueze make people loose money with him penalty miss and non chalance....dem don collect their money back with him mama life.

The world is evil. Talk less , dont flaunt wealth unnecessarily and hold steadfast unto God.

Benjamin Fredrick get long term injury just when he became the famous darling and guaranteed starting central back... some people no go like that growth.

Na so life be.

My faculty and set mate that year. We took classes together from part one to part four. calm and easy going girl, also very coded and zero o drama.

Never knew the OAU "aro" culture don seep enter her body by osmosis and she would turn the culture to a money spinning career.

Na we Awo boys wey carry the culture for head those years don turn to extremely calm and introverted gentlemen now.

The era of Professor Jembe, Bukina, Maxwell,Subomi Iginla , Dr 3A's , Femi Freedeom, Revo, Andfash, Olembe, Agbaakin, M-M, Saburi, Energy, Diamond. U-Fit,

It is well with CAF and their ojoro ways.

It did not start today. Hayatou did a lot for Cameroon especially against Nigeria for many years.

alphonsoolajide:
https://eyesoflagos.com/2026/01/29/caf-sanctions-morocco-senegal-afcon-2025-final/

Fair enough.

Good judgement.

KingDashx:
I swear i knew it was china.
Mr yuan dey collect from 17 babes. Dude's a pro... Kept it hidden until he was hospitalized.. not bad.


Back in 2023 wey I dey my prime I gather 5 babes, nobody tell me I break up with all, I won craze.

When I was way younger from 16 to about 25.

I would date 3 at a time for 4 months. Break up with all of them. Accumulate another 3 for another 4 or 5 months, break up with all of them....until I met one smallie after during NYSC and did 6 years with her.

Then I stopped dating altogether.

To be honest, life was more fun and relaxing

naptu2:
The old problem is being solved

Nice insight. I learnt a thing or two.

As a boy...Obalende was my home. Living in the staff quarters, then in the boarding house, and eventually as a day student.

Three different lifestyles and mindsets for the same school.

Nobody gives a f***k about you if they are not gaining anything from you....take care of yourself first

Goodadvice01:
I'm tired of thinking every minute of the day. Infact, I'm tired of this life.


This is my life predicament below;

— I'm 25
— I'm the only son of a widow out of 2 children
— I have no higher education except waec and neco
— I have no skills (except minimal writing skill)
— I have no helper


My disappointments in life;

— I entered higher institution in 2023 with the help of my mum's relatives but dropped out because i didn't see money for tfare to school and handouts. (tbh, it's a long story)

— I started working in a filling station few months before I even entered school but i resigned after 1 year and 6 months because I and one other of my colleague were accused of the theft of over #1.3M company money via POS (our phones were seized and searched but nothing was found.. me that only had 3 trousers and 2 polo then)

— Last year, I had just made my first hundred dollars and was heading to $1k a month before Amazon terminated my account few days to Christmas.

— After the account termination, I contacted a family friend who lives in US to help me create account and post my book but she just read my msg and ignored (up till now, she no dey even reply my msg again). This is the same family friend that even asked to buy jamb form this year with the promise of training me in nursing school.

— Weeks later, I posted my ordeal here and a fellow agreed to help me on the basis of a sharing pattern to which I agreed. But you should be able to correctly guess how it turned out once I replied his mention “I'm afraid of doing business with my Nigerian brothers”

— When my phone spoilt last year August, my childhood friend promised to send me 50k to get a second hand phone once the month ends..but guess what happened once I tried to chat him on the 3rd of the new month.. the same number that I have been chatting suddenly is no longer on WhatsApp. To say I was shocked at that moment would be an understatement — I was literally dumbfounded fr.

I mean, the guy is doing very well for himself. Judging by his WhatsApp statuses then, he lives in blocks of flats in a very posh area in Port Harcourt. He even told me that he's a software engineer abi something like and even asked me to learn programming. But I honestly told him that I have tried and didn't understand it, maybe because i no sabi maths at all

Abeg o.. I want to ask; na only me waka come this life so?


I have told my mum that 2026 will be the last I'll be living in her house permanently. By 2027, I'll know if God created me to come and be suffering in this wicked world until I dîe.

Since i was born, nobody have even dashed me money or something valuable. I even asked the family friend that lives abroad for a good laptop so I can learn video editing but she just cut the call. But i heard she sent her younger sis iphone 11 and sent her bro a mac book.


Who did I offend in this life?

Why don't I have siblings? Why am I the first born?

Is there really God or just a superstitious belief that the white men sold to us?

If there's God, why would he be happy watching me live in penury?



Everyday my mum will be comparing me with my childhood friend. She doesn't care that i have no brother, sister or helper.

Last December, a childhood friend came back with rx 350 full option.. I didn't even know it was him until he double-crossed me and wine(d) down his tinted glass. Chai, someone that just left for Ghana in late 2022.

Last December, another even came back from PH and took I and our other guy out to a fancy restaurant on the 28th. Our table was full with beer, chicken, meat, suya, shisha, hollandia, etc. But I only drank one bottle of Heineken (like 60%) because my head is light.

The shisha sef, na him com dey teach me how to inhale and exhale it because i no sabi am. It was my first time of eating or drinking outside.

In my mind, I wanted to tell him to please help 🙏 me with the money he wanted to spend one but I didn't know if it'd offend him , so I kept shut. In total, he must have spent anywhere from 90 to 150k that night

He even lodged for hotel for like three weeks before going back.


Why are things extremely difficult for me? Why are my own things always different compared to my peers?

Am I under a curse — generational curse perhaps??

It is well. Just calm down help will come your way. One way or the other. Stop comparing yourself to others.

Take your concerns to God and help will locate you.Also forget expecting helps from relatives and friend,....it is an insult to God.

Your life may be such that God does not want anyone to take the glory over your success. This usually happens to those who are headed for great heights.

Eyes don see. Once again help will locate you one way or the other. If you think you have suffered, there are others in more devastating situations.

As this thing dey pain you so, go cry to God. Tell am as e dey bother you to the marrow and ask for his divine help to open doors of breakthkugh and elavation for you anddevote yourself to him.

It is true that I do not like doing anything with financial witj Nigerians. My eyes have seen pepper in their hands so I have no apologies for being careful.

You will have to learn a skill though. Software testing is one of them.

I won't make you any promises but you will be on my mind. STOP comparing yourself to your peers...it is the quickest way to depression.

Your time will come.

yarimo:
simple question where was peter obi politically when kwankwaso was deputy speaker house of representatives?

Irrelevant question.

Anything wey una like make una do.

Labour Party is inconsequential going forward.

You can give your ticket to Fela Durotoye or Banky W.

yarimo:
Politically kwankwaso is too big to be OBI vice presidential candidate, who is even obi where kwankwaso is in politics

The results of the last presidential election tell a different story.

Kwankwanso himself thought the same until Obi cleared his doubts.

Person wey no get control over him prick.

All these pastors if you near them finish na him u go no sey na devil dem be.

Funny enough, i just finished researching and writing g a piece on this exact subject of speaking in tounge. I will definitely look at your video.

Shopwise:
Add this to your knowledge :
Is Speaking in Tongues for Today? The "Incontrovertible" Proof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn3YNFTyIgM

Biggeststar01:
Not niceness. Weakness. They take advantage of black people and disrespect black culture because they know that there will be no consequences. Even if you get angry, that’s all you can do. You control nothing, you own nothing, you can harm no one except yourselves, that’s why you do it all the time.

I’ve always said the day the world will learn to respect Africa is the day Africa has at least 5 superpower nations. Until then we can only turn a blind eye to the disrespect or complain if you like.

Africans are not interested in church. The average African can not think beyond himself and beyond today....he wants to eat well, get drunk and phuck.

We are the friendliest race towards others. I don't want to say naive but it is our niceness that made it easy to take advantage of us till this day.

What is the meaning of "didiankwoo"

Former governor don dey gossip like hairdresser

Good read.........very enlightening points made

People like that are evil.

They take and take and take but never give back.

Once you identify that pattern early, best cut them off without noise.

Nice story telling...it was engaging

Adakintroy:
You all talk nonsense all the time. You just trying to take away from their collective achievement. Marroco is a fucckin good side. If you not paying attention. they are etter than my shitty Nigeria team. Certain better than all the team you mention. Were did they finish last time out at the world cup?. Better than any African team has ever perform. Certain better than your super eagle s knock out the mighty Portugal. Can any african team pull that off. So they have been consistent now for a while. But you all act. It's all down to favoritism. Nigeria played them and we could barely register a shot on target that also all ref?


My guy those decisions were 50/50. Senegal is a disgrace for walking out. Many of you already made your mind up at to preconceived notion of biase. Senegal would not try that at fifa world cup that's all I know

Two things can be true at the same time.

One one hand Morrocco is a good side on the other hand, they were the beneficiaries of blatantly biased officiating in their favour....aimed to make them win their first AFCON trophy in 50 years, especially since they have helped CAF by hosting all the major open and youth tournaments.

Don't be clever by half. If you need towels to wipe your tears, you can go to Morocco and let them give you all the goalkeeper towels that they stole from their opponents during the matches.

Nonsense.