Kano Pillars Coach Ogunmodede urges universities to introduce football club internships

Kano Pillars Football Club Technical Adviser, Daniel Ogunmodede, has urged universities to promote students, particularly those studying Physical and Health Education and Sports Management, to summation applicable acquisition done internships with shot clubs.

Ogunmodede made the telephone connected Thursday portion speaking astatine the 54th National Conference of the Nigeria Association for Physical, Health Education, Recreation, Sports and Dance (NAPHAR-SD) astatine Bayero University, Kano.

He said shot clubs could springiness students invaluable applicable acquisition by allowing them to enactment with coaches, physiotherapists, fittingness trainers and different sports professionals.

According to him, students could lend to areas specified arsenic physiotherapy, sports science, fittingness grooming and different method aspects of sports. He said this would assistance amended professionalism successful sports improvement and shot nine management.

The Kano Pillars manager besides raised concerns astir the aboriginal of galore footballers aft retirement. He said galore erstwhile players conflict to find enactment and go disconnected from the sports industry.

He truthful stressed the request for universities to equip athletes with utile skills and cognition during their playing careers truthful they tin stay productive and proceed contributing to the sports manufacture aft retirement.