Basketball: Elite Player Skills Challenge To Be Stage in Port Harcourt
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SBMFoundation to partner secondary schools to grow basketball in Rivers State
The Effiong
Foundation in partnership with the Soso Bob-Manuel Foundation (SBMF) and Ball
Skills Trainers’ Factory to stage a two day basketball event in Port Harcourt
kicking off on Saturday 10th April at the Police Officers Mess
Basketball court.
The Elite
Player Skills Challenge event is a basketball camp and also a skills challenge
tournament for teams in Rivers State.
The events
will see over one hundreds kids taking part in the two day basketball challenge
to catch them young and impart the basic rules of the game at a younger age.
Others team
billed to take part in this two days players skills challenge are DA-F
Basketball; Ricday Basketball; SBMF; Uniport Basketball team and a couple of
others.
Speaking at
the Press Briefing, the founder of SBMF, Mr Soso Bob Manuel stated that the two
day events is to showcase raw talent in this part of the country to their
partners “Effiong Foundation” who are base in the United State.
“It’s a
different kind of basketball event that will encompass almost everyone who have
not played basketball previous, the idea is to take basketball back to the
basic while the skills challenge are for those who can play basketball”.
“Tournament
like this is to show that there are more skilful players on this part of the
world; the Effiong Foundation will use the opportunity to pick talents, in the
near future, we are going to stop the use of overage players for tournament”. Mr
Soso disclosed
Mr Soso
further stated that SBMFoundation will partner secondary schools with
basketball facilities within the state to catch them young and groom talents
discovered in the process for the future.
“In the
near future, we are going to stop this idea of using overage players for
tournament, one of the ways to stop this is to catch them young by start this
in the school system”
“We want to
catch these kids from 10 year, 11 years so our job will be easier in future,
and hopefully the country will get to the point we will be better”.
“We need to
find a way to inculcate them in the school system and a lot of time it might
look like is hard, if we put basketball twice a week in almost all the school,
in less than two years you will see a mad difference in how this sports will
grow because once kids find out they love the sport and they are good at it
they will go to their street and find places around they can play away from
schools.”
The two day basketball event will be strictly to Covid-19 compliance as medical practitioners will be on ground during the skills challenge.
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