Greensprings / Kanu Football Camp Resumes This April

Preparations are in full swing as the 9th edition of Greensprings Kanu Football Camp resumes this April. The event which has been an annual football camp for children since 2012 was postponed indefinitely in 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. With its resumption this year, the football camp is scheduled to take place as usual at the Lekki Campus of Greensprings School. 

Date : Sunday, 16^th April to Friday, 21^st April 2023

Two scholarship winners from the last edition of the camp held in 2019, Jubril Azeez and Light Eke were drafted into the Golden Eaglets squad for the West African Football Union B U-17 Championship in 2022, and the team won the championship for Nigeria. The two are poised to represent the country at this year’s U-17 African Cup of Nations in Algeria and FIFA U-17 World Cup in Peru. 

Listen to Light Eke as he shares his experience as a beneficiary of the Greensprings Kanu Football Camp scholarship .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFT6PNaQvd0

Greensprings Kanu Football Camp is designed to enable young children between the ages of 5 and 17 to learn the fundamental skills required to be professional football players; it aims to empower children through football and education. The participating children are trained by top coaches from Europe and the Lagos State Football Association.

The children will be taken through many drills including one-touch shooting, three-goal drills, lay-offs, turns, chest control, headers on goal, basic short passes, shuffling passes, tackling, sliding tackles, goalkeeping techniques, and other exciting drills. Other activities include 5-aside football matches, mentoring sessions, mental stimulation, swimming, basketball, table games and basic networking with their peers.

For your child to participate in this year’s football camp, parents can choose from the available options for below: 

1. Residential (includes accommodation and feeding for the camp period) –  ₦150,000
2. Non-residential with bus service (includes lunch) – ₦135,000
3. Non-residential without bus service (includes lunch) – ₦115,000. 

All three options include a complementary set of football kits, comprising Jerseys, soccer boot and hose, shin guard, polo-shirt, rock sack and a leather ball).

At the end of the camp, awards of recognition will be issued to the participants who performed well during the camp, including award for best 11, and the most promising player(s) of the year will be granted a full academic scholarship to study in Greensprings School. Click here to get more information about the camp or call 0806 407 4503, 0704 550 2444, 0704 550 2424 or 0908 717 17000 for enquiries.

To register your child for the camp, click here. You can also pick up the registration form from any of our campuses:

Anthony Campus: 32, Olatunde Ayoola Avenue, Anthony, Lagos, Nigeria.

Lekki Campus: Km. 40 Lekki – Epe Expy, Awoyaya, Lagos

Ikoyi Campus: 12a, Reeve road, off Glover road, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria.

Registration is extended until April 13th, 2023.

Greensprings Kanu Football Camp is organised by Greensprings School in collaboration with Kanu Nwankwo and Kanu Heart Foundation. It is a 5-day intensive football training project, where boys and girls between the ages of 5 and 17 years undergo technical football training by European coaches from Dutch Football Association and mentorship from Kanu Nwankwo.