{"id":9637,"date":"2011-12-09T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/kano-seek-sunderland-pact\/"},"modified":"2011-12-09T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T15:15:36","slug":"kano-seek-sunderland-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/09\/kano-seek-sunderland-pact\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano seek Sunderland pact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed Kano State football academy is seeking a technical partnership with English Premier League side Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>A team of officials that included Kano deputy governor Abdullahi Ganduje and former NFA chairman Ibrahim Galadima were recently in England to discuss with Sunderland in this respect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we were at Sunderland last week to discuss with them on the possibilities of a technical partnership,\u201d Galadima told MTNFootball.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a follow-up on a discussion already started by the former government of Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the chance to visit their academy as well as see what their programmes were like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The officials also visited the famous Senegalese academy Diambar de Saly in Diourbel.<\/p>\n<p>The academy is sponsored by adidas and co-founded by former France stars Patrick Vieira and Bernard Lama as well as Jimmy Adjovi-Boco.<\/p>\n<p>Galadima is the chairman of a 23-man technical committee on sports development and establishment of a sports institute in Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get the young ones professionally prepared for a career in football by the setting up of this academy,\u201d said Galadima.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already acquired land and some property about 25 kilometres outside the city of Kano and we are hopeful that we could get started even on a low key by the middle of next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be started by the government but run by professionals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kano is one of the hot beds of Nigerian football and home to the country\u2019s best followed club Kano Pillars, who command an average of over 25,000 fans at their home games.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed Kano State football academy is seeking a technical partnership with English Premier League side Sunderland. 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