The U-15 Youth League will be a collaboration with the LFP in La Liga and the overall objective is to get the clubs to jump start their Youth Programs. As part of the preparation, the School calendar has been taken note of and thus the project is PRELIMINARY planned subject to further amendments.
The format of the competition follows thus:
1. The 20 clubs will be divided into 4 groups.
2. Each club will be required to form an U-15 team principally comprising of kids within their catchments area.
3. Each team would be required to appoint an U-15 coaches by Jan/Feb 2017. Our advise here is for clubs to appoint much younger coaches to head this department for obvious reasons so we can also use this to build a new generation of coaches.
4. La Liga will send in experts by Feb/march 2017 to train this U-15 coaches on specific of youth players coaching, scouting and Management. You know this is also a specialty field.
5. By march 2017 clubs would have had their teams set up with trained coaches managing them and indeed having their training and preparations.
6. By April 2017, when the schools would have been on holidays, the league competition will take place with each of the 4 groups of the clubs converging at a neutral venue to play a round robin league and the top two from each group goes to the quarter final, then we play the semi finals and the finals to have winners. We can all actualized this within one month. We can also structure the quarter finals, semi finals and finals to be opening matches for some of the top league matches and some might be on TV.
7. During the tournament La Liga will send out scouts to Look at the boys and also assist the club coaches technically. We believe also our U17 coaches and also the clubs scouts would be looking.
8. At the end an AllStar Team of the U-15 will be selected across all the clubs and would LIKELY in the summer be taking to Spain to play in the La Liga PROMISES tournament comprising the U-15 teams of all the top clubs in Spain among other clubs invited globally.
9. With this done and the possibilities, we will be jump-starting our NPFL youth league and by next season we will see how to increase the number of games and there would be incentive for each club player selected to the U-15 AllStar and also for each player that made his club main team within 2 years.
10. BUT NOTE, this is the preliminary structure being envisaged and it is subject to further amendments based in exigencies of the situation. So any suggestions can be welcomed.
11. We have already approached some corporate that are engaging in organizing youth football tournaments to see if they can redirects and situate their sponsorship within this NPFL Youth League structure.
1. The 20 clubs will be divided into 4 groups.
2. Each club will be required to form an U-15 team principally comprising of kids within their catchments area.
3. Each team would be required to appoint an U-15 coaches by Jan/Feb 2017. Our advise here is for clubs to appoint much younger coaches to head this department for obvious reasons so we can also use this to build a new generation of coaches.
4. La Liga will send in experts by Feb/march 2017 to train this U-15 coaches on specific of youth players coaching, scouting and Management. You know this is also a specialty field.
5. By march 2017 clubs would have had their teams set up with trained coaches managing them and indeed having their training and preparations.
6. By April 2017, when the schools would have been on holidays, the league competition will take place with each of the 4 groups of the clubs converging at a neutral venue to play a round robin league and the top two from each group goes to the quarter final, then we play the semi finals and the finals to have winners. We can all actualized this within one month. We can also structure the quarter finals, semi finals and finals to be opening matches for some of the top league matches and some might be on TV.
7. During the tournament La Liga will send out scouts to Look at the boys and also assist the club coaches technically. We believe also our U17 coaches and also the clubs scouts would be looking.
8. At the end an AllStar Team of the U-15 will be selected across all the clubs and would LIKELY in the summer be taking to Spain to play in the La Liga PROMISES tournament comprising the U-15 teams of all the top clubs in Spain among other clubs invited globally.
9. With this done and the possibilities, we will be jump-starting our NPFL youth league and by next season we will see how to increase the number of games and there would be incentive for each club player selected to the U-15 AllStar and also for each player that made his club main team within 2 years.
10. BUT NOTE, this is the preliminary structure being envisaged and it is subject to further amendments based in exigencies of the situation. So any suggestions can be welcomed.
11. We have already approached some corporate that are engaging in organizing youth football tournaments to see if they can redirects and situate their sponsorship within this NPFL Youth League structure.
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| L-R: Shehu Dikko, NPFL Chairman, La Liga representative and an NPFL Official during the partnership deed. |
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