Etisalat Nigeria on Friday announced the launch of the Etisalat FC Barcelona U-17 School’s Cup; a 5-A-Side football competition for secondary schools in Lagos.
Starting from August 1, sixteen secondary schools will be competing against each other for the star prize of N1million educational award to the school and an all expense paid trip to the United Arab Emirates.
Director, Brands and Communications, Etisalat Nigeria, Mr. Enitan Denloye speaking at the media briefing explained that the Etisalat FCB Under-17 Schools’ Cup is an innovative platform created by the company to provide an opportunity to football lovers to express their passion for the game.
“Since signing a partnership deal with Spanish Football Club FC Barcelona in 2009, we have provided our customers with the best of both worlds, –our world class quality of service and the best in football by FC Barcelona”, Denloye explained.
“As the official telecommunications partner for FC Barcelona, we have been rewarding our customers with the Etisalat FC Barcelona Promo, one of the biggest cash and prize promotion currently in its second year. Now we are taking the passion of football to secondary schools in order to develop young talents, build great friendships in a fun and exciting way as well as winning prizes,” he said.
Participating schools in the competition have been selected by the Lagos State Ministry of Education and the Lagos State Football Association. The sixteen schools gearing up for the competition represent each of the six Local Education Districts in the state. The preliminaries of the competition will be played on knock out bases and eight teams will progress to the quarter finals with four teams moving on to the semi-finals that will lead up to a school emerging winner.
The winning school will get a N1million educational award and an all expense paid trip for the team to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to play a friendly match with a local school football team. The first and second runner-up schools will win N750,000 and N500,000 respectively. The individual players from the winning team, first and second runner up schools will also receive cash prizes.
