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Coaches handling the Enugu Zonal finals of the Airtel Rising Stars Season 4 Football championships have been battling with the large turnout of kid footballers during the screening exercise.
Enugu Zonal co-ordinator Ann Chiejine told our reporter that it is clear Nigerian kids are in search of where to express themselves through football.
“The players here are too much for such a short period given us. Many will be sreened out because every one of them look determined and eager to do well..”
She said the case was complicated when some of the players that had already been screened still come back under different platform for another screening.
“I normally send such players packing,: when it is so discovered,” she said, adding that the number has been reduced through screening.
“We are gong to have two teams in each category tomorrow *
She said the finals which comes up toda at the University of Nigeria (Enugu Campus) will witness the best of grassroots football.
Chejine,a former national team goalkeeper said the programme which ends today, will be termed as successful if in the next few years some of the players identified here become members of the junior national teams
