Former Super Falcons striker, Vera Okolo has decided to float a football academy with the aim of discovering future stars for various Nigerian national teams.
For more than a decade, Okolo played a vital role in the nation’s women football, leading the Super Falcons to victory at major championships including the 2004 African Women’s Championship in South Africa, as well as securing a gold medal at the 2003 COJA Games in Abuja.
Her lone strike secured the Athens 2004 Olympics Games ticket for the Super Falcons at the expense of Bayana Bayana of South Africa. She also grabbed the winner for Nigeria at the All African Games final at Algiers 2007.
At club level, Okolo, who is nicknamed ‘pocket dynamite,’ featured for various teams including Delta Queens FC, a club she helped to win its first trophy, the Super Six title at Umuahia, Abia State in 2003.
Okolo, who obtained a coaching certificate from the National Institute of Sports (NIS), a few years ago says her ambition is to use her football academy in Asaba to groom young stars, both male and female to stardom. (Guardian)