Olukoya Youth Football Competition gets underway

The annual Dr. D K Olukoya International Youth Football Competition kicks off on Wednesday at the
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) University training pitch, Prayer City, along Lagos-
Ibadan Express Way.

The 6th edition of the tourney which will hold for three weeks will be starting from 9am every day.
The organisers said solid arrangements have been made for accommodation and feeding of the
participating teams from 40 regions of MFM.

The Regional Overseer, MFM Headquarters, who also doubles as the Chairman Sports Committee, Pastor
Fredrick Alewi said the competition is organised to reposition the youths, revive their spiritual lives
and seek God’s favour in their chosen careers.

Pastor Alewi said the competition will also provide an opportunity to discover more players that would
be injected into the MFM Football Club.

‘In accordance with the General Overseer’s (Dr. D K Olukoya) mandate, which is a 70-point agenda, is
youths re-positioning- to ensure that youths do not waste away on the streets- that was why the
competition was formed. And for a while now the competition has been very successful,” Alewi said.

He added: “And most of the youths discovered through this competition are not only useful for
themselves, but they are useful to their families and on the pitch. For the glory of God the purpose of
the competition has been achieved in the sense that, the youths rather than sitting down somewhere
smoking Indian hemp on are now doing something good for themselves.

“The competition is not for business making but to reposition the youths. Most of the players in the
national U17, U20 came from MFM Youth Football Competition, from this competition our coaching crew of
MFM will be on ground during the competition to scout for good players that can fit in into the main
team. We have lot of players that have left the club and we need replacement and this is an opportunity
for the coaching crew to discover new players.

Super Eagles and Leicester City FC of England midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, Akwa United midfielder Ifeanyi
Ifeanyi, Abia Warriors’ Atu Irumekhai and Ifeanyi George of Ranger International of Enugu were some of
the players discovered from the tournament.