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3SC FC Confirms Fuji Icon, Taye Currency, Agboola As Goodwill Ambassadors
NIGERIAN football club based in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, Shooting Stars Sports Club, popularly known as 3SC/ Oluyole Warriors, on Thursday unveiled fuji star, Taye Adebisi Akande Currency, and veteran journalist, Olayinka Agboola as its newest goodwill Ambassadors.
The far-famed musician, Taye Currency and the Publisher of Parrot Xtra Magazine / PMParrot.com, Olayinka Agboola will work with Shooting Stars Sports Club on a series of events to highlight the challenges faced by the team and supporting its dreams
Welcoming the guests at a ceremony held at the Lekan Salami Stadium, the Project Coordinator and leader of the Supporters’ Club, Mr Femi Oyeniyi disclosed that the unveiling of the Goodwill Ambassadors was the first part of plans to reposition 3SC.
His statement reads, “Unveiling our Goodwill Ambassadors is the very first step. Our focus is to raise N500 million for the club. We believe this is exactly possible if we all forge a common front. The government alone cannot continue to fund the club. We want the club to meet world standards. 3SC is a team that has a traditional big name in Africa. We must work hard to ensure that it lives up to its billings”.
Also, in his goodwill message, renowned socialite, Mr Semiu Adenekan popularly addressed by his fans as DJ Semight urged all concerned to join hands to reposition 3SC.
While delivering his message, the fuji star, Taiye Adebisi Currency pledged to give his best to contribute to the growth of the team.
3SC FC Goodwill Ambassadors flanked by the team’s General Manager. (L-R) Yinka Agboola, Rasheed Balogun and Taye Akande Adebisi
“I believe in what 3SC stands for. The club is one of those things we use to boast as indigenes of Ibadanland. I am going to pull all the strings I can to make sure I make an impact. I implore us all to continue to pray for both the players and management so that the team can return to the elite division.”
Remarking, the former Chief Press Secretary to late Governor Lam Adesina, Olayinka Agboola thanked those who made the event possible, especially those who came up with all the concepts and programmes that will return 3SC to the expected pedestal in the comity of viable sporting clubs.
“When I was first approached by Mr Steve Akadiri on the issue of becoming an Ambassador, I must confess, I never took him serious. However, he was, eventually able to convince me that the task is worth taking up.
“Those who know me and what I do know that I am sincerely interested in 3SC’s welfare, especially the politics and the political ‘wiremesh’ around it.
Mr Semiu Adenekan presenting 3SC FC Jersey to one of the team’s Goodwill Ambassador, Agboola
“In the past 14 years as publishers of PMParrot and Parrot Xtra Magazine, we have continued to do our best for the uplift of the football club”, the veteran journalist explained.
He, however urged the owner government, under the leadership of Governor Abiola Ajimobi to do all it can to seriously set in motion how to return the club to its former position as a pacesetter on the football scene in Nigeria and indeed Africa.
He averred that, by doing this, the government will be helping to uphold the heritage which 3SC stands for.
Agboola added, “by extension, I wish to call on all colleagues in the media profession, our radio stations, television stations and online platforms to work with us so that we can build the right kind of followership for the team. If we do this, the followers will in turn help the club.
“ I implore industry big guns and the corporate world in this part of the country to also join the project of lifting up 3SC. Together, the dream of taking the team to the greatest heights will be achieved”.
The event had in attendance, the Chairman of 3SC, Mr Gbolagade Busari, its General Manager, Mr Rasheed Balogun, Alhaji Yekeen Ahmed, Mr Akinade Okediran, Hon Kehinde Agboola, Mr Gboyega Makinde of the Oyo State Sports Council, Mr Niyi Alebiosu of Oyo SWAN, Mr Olumide Oludare of Development Support Centre, Ibadan and several other sports lovers.
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