George Aluo
The cities of Ibadan and Ijebu Ode will this weekend come alive with the best of university football as eight universities slug it out in the Africa Students Football Union (ASFU) Invitational Championship.
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) in the draw made yesterday in Lagos at a press briefing to herald the tournament, would in Group A, jostle for the semi final ticket with Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu Ode, Edo State University, Kenyatta University, Nairobi and Lagos State University (LASU) at the Ijebu Ode centre.
In Group B with centre at Ibadan, city landlords, University of Ibadan would lay ambush for Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Joseph Ayo Babalola University (JABU), Ekiti, University of Developmental Studies, Accra, Ghana and National University of Science and Technology, Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Throwing more light on the championship, Prof Seun Omotayo said AFSU aims to breed students who would effectively combine education with football, thus promoting the Town and Gown philosophy.
He noted that ASFU is the first Pan African Students football union whose objective is to use the prism of football to provide growth and development opportunities for students with football skills.
In Omotayo’s words: “ASFU provides opportunity to combine education and football and secure a future after retiring.”
ASFU has the trio of Peter Rufai, Seyi Olofinjana and Julius Aghahowa as Ambassadors. Aghahowa was one of those that supervised the draw yesterday in Lagos.