Nigerian football legend, Dr Segun Odegbami has called on West African sub-region to bid for the hosting right of the World Cup in a bid to unleash the region’s several potentials and fortunes in the tournament. Odegbami delivered the 15th distinguished public lecture series of the Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State on Wednesday with the title: “Sports has the power to change the world. How true?”
According to the former International, all the countries that have hosted the World Cup and other international sporting events experienced enormous impact that developed their economy and growth. He elaborated that the moment has come when nations around West Africa should host the first world cup to be held on African soil.
Going further, the Mathematical Odegbami as he was fondly called during his playing days proposed “using sports to catalyse, facilitate, accelerate and enforce the biggest and fastest infrastructural development programme for the West African sub-region, by West Africa bidding to host the First World Cup to be staged in the African continent.”
Odegbami, who was a member of the 1980 African Nation’s cup winning squad for Nigeria, called on the Federal University Lokoja and other universities in the country to accord sports the topmost priority so as to discover talents that would advance the cause of the institution in sports. Earlier in his speech, the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Olayemi Akinwumi said that as academics, they value the game-changing possibilities of sports beyond the playing field, as it inspire, instill discipline, and build leadership values that are critical for personal and national development.
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