The Kwara State Badminton coaching clinic is expected to kick off on Saturday, National Pilot report.
The clinic is being organised by the Kwara Badminton Association in conjunction with LMK Sports Ltd is meant to tap raw talents from the grassroots across the state.
Speaking on Tuesday at the Conference Hall, Kwara State Stadium, Ilorin to usher in the clinic, the Chairman Local Organising Committee (LOC), Abdulwahab Oba thanked the sponsor for putting the event together.
Oba, an erstwhile Chief Press Secretary to immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Abdulfatah Ahmed, added that there would be a veteran game at the end of the clinic.
Also speaking, the Chief Executive Officer of LMK Sports Ltd, Fatai Salaudeen said his passion for the racket game was the reason behind the clinic.
Salaudeen, who is a former badminton player in the state, said he was well mentored by a couple of coaches in the state, hence the reason for sponsoring the clinic.
He assured would be participants that he would always give support to the sport and the association in the state and would do more to catch them young.
The Kwara State Badminton Coach, Bello Oyebanji, has said that no fewer than 80 pupils and students would participate in the 2019 Badminton clinic in the state.
He said the kids would be taken through the fundamental techniques of the racket game which entries will start by 9 a.m. on Monday, July 29.
According to him, some of the techniques the participants would be taken through include Racket grip, Shuttle contact, Wall contact movement pattern among others.
The Director of Sports, Coach Tunde Kazeem in his speech at the events urged governments at all levels to invest in other sports and reduce over investment in football at the detriment of other sports.
He lauds the sponsor of the clinic and urged others rich individuals to emulate him for sports development in the state.
