Akwa United Promotes U15 Star Duo To Main Team

Akwa United Promotes U15 Star Duo To Main Team 

Ibraheem Lateef Ayodele

Akwa United have promoted its U15 Captain Nsikan Alloysius and Covenant Bassey to the club’s first team and registered the duo as youth players to feature in the 2022-23 Nigeria Professional football league season.

BSNSports.com.ng sourced that Nsikan, a left full-back was the captain of the Akwa United U-15 team, while Covenant a goalkeeper participated in the 2021 NPFL/LA LIGA Promise tournament in Enugu and was invited to the National U-15 camp.

The youngsters recently completed their secondary education at Government Technical College, Ewet Offot, and Aka Community Secondary school in Uyo respectively.

The two players have been training with the Promise Keepers' main team since returning from the 2021 NPFL/LA LIGA tournament in Enugu.

Nsikan has been assigned jersey number 38 while Covenant will wear jersey number 40.