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Paystack co-founder, Shola Akinlade reportedly launches new Sporting Lagos Football Club | PressInformant

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Nigerian fintech mogul and co-founder of Paystack, Shola Akinlade, has launched a brand new soccer membership, Sporting Lagos, as a part of a neighborhood mission that he believes will nurture the subsequent era of Nigerian sporting expertise.

Paystack co-founder, Shola Akinlade launches Sporting Lagos Football club

Based on Enterprise Insider Africa, the newly shaped soccer membership can be led by well-known names like Godwin Enakhena, CEO of World Media, who will function the membership’s chairman, the membership’s governing physique may also be led by Ekene Agu, a Paystack worker, Colin Udoh, a former Tremendous Eagles media officer, and Fola Olatunji-David, an early stage investor and former Google worker.

Talking on the institution of the Sporting Lagos Soccer Membership, Shola Akinlade said that the transfer aligns with the concept to harness soccer’s transformative energy to deliver collectively folks from all walks of life and create financial alternatives on a big scale.

In his phrases;

“In the previous few years, a number of platforms have emerged to supply alternatives for younger Nigerians to carry out on the highest degree of excellence. Younger Nigerians got here collectively to show know-how, music, and cinema into massively profitable industries that command international consideration, and we’ve constructed flourishing ecosystems round these platforms that profit tens of millions of individuals. In sports activities as nicely, we’ve got a protracted historical past of particular person Nigerians utilizing soccer – and sports activities normally – as a platform to ascend to international recognition.”

Whereas talking on the membership’s ambition, Enakhena mentioned the staff’s spell within the Nigerian second division wouldn’t be greater than a season earlier than becoming a member of the highest groups within the Nigeria Skilled Soccer League (NPFL).

“I don’t see myself as somebody that desires to run an NNL staff, we tried our greatest to get an NPFL staff, nevertheless it didn’t work out. We’re an NNL staff for now, however we won’t spend multiple season within the second division,” he advised the outlet.

The Lagos-based facet is ready to play its first sport within the Nigerian Nationwide League second division on Feb. 12 on the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria.