ABOUT 100 students will be selected for a handball clinic
in Lagos State from over 1000 students that participated at the 2nd
edition of the Opeifa Cup Lagos Secondary Schools Handball Championship.
This was disclosed to SportingLife by sponsor of the
tournament, Comrade Kayode Opiefa, the immediate past Commissioner for
Transportation in Lagos State at the end of the week-long event held at the Rowe
Park Sports Centre, Yaba.
“One of the things we plan is that the four winners are
getting handball goal posts with net and balls, we are also going to create a ten
minutes documentary on this completion and make sure all the 92 teams that came
for the competition have at least a goal post in their school.
“We also plan that before the next school resumption we
will organize a clinic in Lagos where we have 50 male and 50 female selected
from these over 1000 students and try and improve their skills. Don't forget
that Lagos is the current champion at the sports festival level for the men and
in the women we are runners up, we hope we can still do some more work on them
to bring out the best in them. I can assure you from these players we have some
of the players that will represent the country at the 2020 Olympics.
Speaking on other plans to develop handball in the state,
Comrade Opeifa said, “We are looking at the National stadium, there is a
handball court there that is underutilized and we would see how can take
advantage. We are also looking at a possible place within Agege Stadium, maybe
the basketball court. We are also
looking at NYSC camp in Agege. We are also planning to move to Ikeja
Cantonment, we learnt command secondary school also has spaces so that we can
to nurture the students.
“A lot of things are in the pipeline, but it’s not about
one person we are all going to come together. We also have another championship
at the national level where we would expose some of these talents,” he said.
While commending the sponsor for his commitment, the
Chairman, Lagos State Handball Association, Adeola Opeifa said players that
will represent the state at various competitions will be selected from this
year’s edition of the Opeifa Cup.
“Most of those we
picked from Ibile Games represented us in a competition among six states in
Abeokuta in February and Lagos State won the competition. So we will definitely
be selecting the best from this edition of the Opeifa Cup into our state team,”
she said.
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