Sports philanthropist vows to bring Ronaldo, Beckham, Drogba, Eto'o to Nigeria in June
Published: December 12, 2021Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo will step his foot in Nigeria for the first time in June 2022, according to the founder and President of the Africa Children Talent Discovery Foundation (ACTDF), Noah Dallaji.
Dallaji is known as a sports philanthropist who has his tentacles spread across all sport’s in Nigeria and has successfully secured scholarship for some young basketballers in the USA while some young footballers in his Foundation are now in Europe with one of them already with English Premier League side Leicester City.
He also supported Asisat Oshoala’s girl child football programme, as well as para-soccer athletes.
Dallaji was responsible for bringing Khalilou Fadiga , Trésor Lomana LuaLua and other African stars to Bauchi last summer.
The highly influential figure has however made the mother of all revelations when he announced in midweek, during FCT SWAN symposium in Abuja, that Portugal national team captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, David Beckham, Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and other African stars will be storming the Moshood Abiola stadium by June 2022.
"In this stadium where we’re sitting down, in June, we’ll have the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo would who grace the occasion and mentor the young ones.
"We’re working so hard on it and we’re going to have the meeting by sometimes in March in Manchester to see how things can be possible. He is convinced about it, I think he is going to come.
"The likes of David Beckham, and then few other stars from Africa here, our own people, Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o would be here to mentor these young people.
"If that is the only thing we can do and give back to the society, we’ll continue to do it. With your help also. We’ll be talking to you more on it very soon, ones we make the progress," Dallaji affirms.
He also confirmed that former President of United State of America Barrack Obama would be mentoring African youth in October 2022.
"What we’re planing is to use talents to make sure that this continent being respected entirely but the continent can continue be respected except Nigeria take the lead. And that’s the contribution that we believe we can give in terms of sports and other aspect of talents that would make this work," Dallaji revealed.
Dallaji says the aim of ACTDF is to keep identifying and supporting youths in Education, Sports, Art, and Entertainment in order to make them useful to the society.
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