The 8th edition of the Wasimi Summer Soccer Championship 2025, a football festival that has been taking place every year since 2016, is just around the corner.
The locations for this year’s matches are football fields that are between Wasimi and Wasimi Orile, adjacent double settlements separated by a road and a railway line about 800 meters apart on the Lagos-Sango Otta-Abeokuta Express Road in Ewekoro Local Government Area or Ogun.
The festival dominates all the conversations and trading in the environment.
This year, the event that started 9 years ago as an inter-home sports between a few mushroom clubs in the environment, has flourished in a thousand flowers, one of the largest basic football programs for talent show and development in this part of the country. It has also become an important contribution to the socio-economic life of the people of Wasimi and neighboring communities.
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Hundreds of football coaches, academy owners, competition officers, local and some international scouts, an observer-technical team of the Nigeria Football Federation, and some medical staff accompany the teams to the championship and turn the environment into a sort of carnival for those two weeks every year. This year it assumes and even a larger and better dimension.
A relatively new institution, Owu College of Management Technology, based in Wasimi, with its 7000 student population, offers a new and important background. Some of his facilities, including the playing field and the private hostel rooms, will come in handy and be part of the event.
The Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy, Soca, in Wasimi Orile, offers an extra football field for matches.
Eagle 7 Sports Radio, new partners of the program, offers live radio reporting and daily reports from the football matches and other activities in the championship.
The Eagle7 Bamboo Garden will be the HUB of social activities, including official ceremonies, evening towers in film shows, dance and musical shows, drama, comedy and meetings for team functionaries and visitors who come to the championship. It will also organize the health education programs of the Nigeria Heart Foundation, NHF, the coaches training seminars and workshops and award ceremonies.
Every year a few exceptionally gifted players benefit from the recruitment options of clubs (local and foreign), and fairs offered by schools (including Soca) for those who are still at school and want to combine their football programs with academics.
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From July 25 to August 10, 2025, Wasimi organizes an estimated 3000 girls and boys from around 150 football clubs and academies in Nigeria.
Where would that number of participants be housed in that semi-urban environment?
The organizers assure me with their incredible stories about their 8-year experience; How the teams embrace themselves in the city, rent and take over empty student hostels and sprout new houses everywhere; How many teams remain with families in available rented rooms in the city, and so on. The different experiences will be a great documentary.
The two secondary schools in the city, as well as Soca, located in Wasimi Orile, a kilometer distance from the road and railway line that separate the two wasimis, will offer the bad playing fields on which the matches will be played.
The Nigerian Heart Foundation, NHF, will play an important role this year by promoting lighting programs to prevent heart -related situations during and after the period of the championship through workshops, practical training courses and lectures for all participants. This is a prelude to the larger celebration of the 25th anniversary of the World Heart Day, which is marked all over the world on 25 September 2025.
Personally, I will be involved, observe the entire program, document and report in my daily diary that will be on all my social media platforms for the world to follow what the twin cities of Wasimi and Wasimi Orile offer this summer in the sport!
Registration is underway. Soon all roads will lead to Wasimi for one of the largest sport development programs in Nigeria, today.
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