Gamers and coaches of high-flying ladies’s league outfit, CATS Girls FC of Lagos are answerable for management coaching and educating soccer strategies at a two-day programme for women in Surulere.
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The programme, which started on Tuesday and extends into Wednesday at Union Financial institution’s The Secure Sports activities Complicated on Bode Thomas Highway, is tagged Objectives For Women Management Summit 2026.
Sports247 gathered that the programme is the initiative of a USA-based Nigerian, Damilola Ogunbote, who’s the manager director of Objectives For Women Initiative, with help from CATS Girls’ head coach, Chinasa Mandy Ukandu, serving because the venture’s nation supervisor in Nigeria.
Ogunbote and Ukandu, who’s a former participant, are equally being aided by CATS Girls’ assistant coach, Kehinde Ogunneye (fornerly primarily based in England) and a few of the membership’s gamers in operating the continuing venture.
One of many gamers within the 2025 Lagos State Womens’ League successful ream, Tessy Tony Oyomowo, who performs as an attacker and versatile full again, informed Sports247 that the day’s actions concerned three phases – management lessons, soccer expertise and mini-competition.
The petite participant, who served as time keeper for the soccer expertise section, additional defined that, whereas the management facets maintain within the area’s sitting stands, strategies are taught on the pitch.
“The soccer expertise a part of our actions contain 5 phases. We have now management, dribbling, passing, psychological alertness and capturing phases.
“There are 150 college students from 5 junior colleges, which offered 30 every. So, we first take them by varied facets of management coaching, after which they arrive to the pitch for stage by stage of soccer expertise.”
Oyomowo and the opposite gamers then turned to referees when it was time for the day’s climax in a mini-competition amongst college students from all of the 5 taking part colleges (which a unique set may also do on Wednesday).
On the finish of the matches for Day 1, which had been performed with two video games happening concurrently for 10 minutes every on a spherical robin format, Group Secondary School positioned first with ten factors, adopted by Iponri Property Excessive School with seven factors and Coker Secondary School third.
Full outcomes of the mini-competition for Day One:
1. Eric Moore Excessive School 0, Coker Secondary School 2
2. Iponri Property Excessive School 1, Sanya Secondary School 0
3. Eric Moore Excessive School 0, Iponri Property Excessive School 0
4. Coker Secondary School 0, Group Secondary School 1
5. Eric Moore Excessive School 0, Sanya Secondary School 0
6. Iponri Property Excessive School 0, Group Secondary School 1
7. Eric Moore Excessive School 0, Group Secondary School 2
