Fifteen players have been selected from the South-West zone for the final of the maiden Global Grassroots Football Tournament (GGFT) scheduled to take place in Abuja on May 17.<\/P>
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Joseph Ombugala, Chief Zonal Coordinator, Global Grassroots Football Tournament, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) over the telephone on Sunday that the 15 players were chosen on merit.<\/P>
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\u201cWe saw players in the South-West that think with their feet,\u201d he said.<\/P>
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Ombugala said that 60 players from the six states of the South-West zone participated in the rigorous selection process which eventually produced 15 players.<\/P>
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\u201cSo far, we have concluded South-South and South-East with seven and eight best players selected respectively for the final in Abuja.<\/P>
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\u201cFrom South-South, we arrived South-West, using Obasanjo\u2019s farm in Ogun State as base.<\/P>
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\u201cWhen we came, we saw 60 selected best of best players ready for the tournament at Obasanjo\u2019s farm.<\/P>
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\u201cFrom the 60 players, Uchendu Nwabara, Proprietor of Prestige Football Academy, Abuja, myself and the Chief Scout, Yahaya Adamu, worked together to pick 15.<\/P>
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\u201cWe worked without sentiment. We saw talents and we were amazed with what we saw in the South-West,\u201d Ombugala said.<\/P>
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According to him, none of the players that emerged from the scouting process will be rejected going by the quality of talents on parade.<\/P>
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He said that players so far selected were presumed the best and would in no distant time play for the country\u2019s various national teams.<\/P>
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\u201cWe believe that none of the players we selected in the various zones will be rejected by foreign scouts because we worked without bias.<\/P>
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\u201cWe can decide to leave a zone if we don\u2019t see quality players because a lot of people are coming to watch the final in Abuja and we won\u2019t want to feed them with underperforming players.<\/P>
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\u201cThis is one of the best scouting programme I have ever seen in Nigeria and we hope to sustain it on annual basis.<\/P>
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\u201cWe are here to select and give opportunity to the best players to showcase themselves. These players performance in the future will go a long way to show what we have done.<\/P>
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\u201cWe hope that players that emerge from our tournament will win Africa and World footballers award,\u201d Ombugala said.<\/P>
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NAN reports that the tournament moves to North-East (Bauchi) zone beginning from May 8, after its successful outing in South-West.<\/P>
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Source: News Agency of Nigeria<\/P>
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