Barrister Churchill Oliseh, President of Nationwide League One (NLO) side, FC Ebedei has once again retriated his stand that football by made a business, rather than just winning trophies.

This was the pivotal point of the discussion as he schooled a delegation of private club owners and managers within the Ekiti football ecosystem, led by the State FA Chairman, Bayo Olanlege.

Oliseh’s August guest were on a working visit to the newly constructed multi-million Naira FC Ebedei Stadium in Sagamu, Ogun State.

Oliseh, the doyen of football business in Nigeria and astute manager stressed that if well administered with right ingredients, there is money to be made in football, hence private club owners and managers must always work towards making profits all times and not just be in the beautiful game for charity.

“Football is never charity, clubs owners need to make proper preparations and seek knowledge.

“The results you get are not by accident, they are by concerted efforts and that is why you must think beyond just winning medals and trophies, money making must be part of your plans as you run your football club at any level.”

Oliseh further noted that learning should be a continuous process if anyone will make headway in football business as the game keeps evolving each day.

“To make profit from your investments in football, you need to seek the right definition of the game by capacity building and networking with the right people.

“The definition of football varies, however what you think of football does not matter, but what the market says should be your ideal.”

Sensational, phenomenal, one would need more of those adjectives to describe the person of SGFC Athletics Striker and Talisman, Joseph Donatus.

The prodigy, who scored hattrick when his team demolished Fehinty FC 7-2 in the matchday 7 of the NLO was the Cynosure of eyes at the Main bowl of Kwara State Stadium Complex

Speaking to newsmen after the game, the goal poacher expressed his delight over the achievement and revealed the inspiration behind his super man display.

“Today, I told my teammates that I am going to score two goals and by God’s grace I eventually scored hattrick, so it was a happy moment for me”

“From the training, the Coach was pushing me to score more goals and I took that mentality to the game and said if I can play the way I played in the training, I will play well”.

Asked whether his achievement would bear some pressure on his level of delivery, Joseph who has four goals and one assist to his credit in the current season stated that he will continue to work hard to help the team.

“I will just be working hard and be prayerful so that If I have any chance I will be able to use it”.

Like many other players, The Ikeja Cantonment trained talent noted the support he has received from his family and hopes to take his career to the next level.

“I am seeing myself at the next level. Very soon, I want to see myself in the top league side whether in Nigeria or Europe- that’s my aim”

“My family gave me that oppurtunity and support me, where I grew up from- it’s not an area where you can play ball but my mummy and sisters gave me that support”

Recalling some bitter moments, he reminisced stormy scenes he had with his father while trying to pursue a career in football.

“My Father didn’t really allow me to play football. Sometimes, he will seize my boots, punish me and I will even missed school because of football- I only have that support from my Mother and my sisters- and that support alone gave me the spirit to continue to fight on, it’s been rough though”.

While thanking his Coach for the opportunity and his teammates for their support, Donatus pledges to continue to give his best to help the team achieve its goals and objectives.

“I am very grateful especially our Head Coach- From day one, he has that believe in me that I can really achieve what I want and My teammates are always there to encourage me to, even though I lose goals they will tell me i can do better than what I am doing-So I want to thank everyone of  them for supporting me” he concluded.

It was a huge moment of relief for the General Manager of SGFC Athletics Football club Olawale Olatoye after his team recorded an emphatic 3-0 victory over Ogbomosho United at the Kwara State Complex Stadium Ilorin on Thursday evening.

Aftermath of the consecutive defeat to Gidado FC and Hammola FC, SGFC Athletics needed some sort of motivation to bounce back and offcourse they did it in a ground style with a scintillating victory over their counterpart at the Kwara State Stadium Complex Ilorin.

Goals from Etaghara Bright, Hyginus Wisdom and Charles Obani was enough as SGFC Athletics cruised on an emphatic 3-0 victory over Ogbomoso United as they record their second win of the NLO campaign in the process.

Speaking to News Men after the game the Ace Journalist cum Administrator expressed how elated he was to have earned such a remarkable victory, “I am absolutely excited I must say, a big relief coming back from a consecutive defeat”, he said.

“At some point I was a bit shaking because the goals wasn’t coming but I believed in my boys I know definitely that they can do it during the break I just told them to get out there and get the goals let them know that you have it and you can deliver.

“We would not rely on this victory but we where able to go back every game day weather we lose or win, we analyse it what are we doing right what are we doing wrong, we feel that our wrong was more than our right so we try to do everything right in this game and then we got this victory.

“We’ll definitely continue because we are SGFC ‘One For All’ ‘All For One’ we never relent and game time is always a time to be ready when we cross this hurdle then we move to the next until the end of the season”, he concluded.