Aiyegbeni, Olofinjana to mentor NPFL youth league players

The Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) has picked former Super Eagles players, Yakubu Aiyegbeni and Seyi Olofinjana as mentors for the youth league.

Former Super Eagles handler, Austin Eguavoen and Patrick Pascal will also serve in a mentorship role.

The quartet were unveiled in a brief ceremony at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium, Benin City.

The NPFL Chairman, Hon Gbenga Elegbeleye, said the idea of the mentorship is to provide professional role models who would deploy their experience to nurture the young talents to stardom.

Elegbeleye tasked the quartet to use their influence in the round leader game to help discover, nurture, and mentor the next generation of Stars at the youth league.

The chairman of the youth league Committee, Pastor Emeka Inyama, lauded the ex-internationals for accepting to work with the NPFL for talent discovery.

“It is noteworthy that you have left your private business engagement to answer this call to serve,” he told the NPFL media.

“It is a demonstration of your readiness to reproduce yourselves for Nigeria and this is very commendable.”