By Andrew Abah, Abuja
Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo will storm Nigeria for the first time in June 2022, for the second edition of Africa Children Talent Discovery Foundation (ACTDF).
According to the founder and president of ACTDF, Noah Dallaji who is also a Sports Philanthropist, said his tentacles involves all sports in Nigeria and has successfully secured scholarship for some young basketballers in the USA while some young footballers in his foundation are now in Europe with one plying his trade with Leicester City.
Dallaji also revealed during the just concluded FCT SWAN WEEK that notable figures in round leather game David Beckham, Samuel Eto’o Fills, Didier Drogba and other African stars will be storming the Moshood Abiola stadium by June 2022.
“In this stadium where we’re sitting down, in June, we’ll have the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo who would grace the occasion and mentor the young ones.
“We’re working so hard on it and we’re going to have the meeting by sometimes in March in Manchester to see how things can be possible. He is convinced about it, I think he is going to come.”
“The likes of David Beckham, and then few other stars from Africa here, our own people, Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto’o would be here to mentor these young people.“
“If that is the only thing we can do and give back to the society, we’ll continue to do it. With your help also. We’ll be talking to you more on it very soon, ones we make the progress,” Dallaji assures.
He also confirms that former President of United State of America Barrack Obama would be mentoring African youth in October 2022.
Dallaji says the aim of ACTDF is to keep identifying and supporting youths in Education, Sports, Art, and Entertainment, to make them useful to the society.
