BY IKENWA ASHIBUOGWU NNABUOGOR
Top Finnish agent Marko Saralinna has navigated his agency ship to storm Lagos in search of talents with a view to shipping them to Finland for professional football.
Saralinna, no stranger to Nigerian football has kept his well oiled association with Nigerian football and players alive, returned to familiar terrain to feel the turf again and get more Nigerian legs to hit up the Finnish League.
Green is the land for Saralinna as usual as his eagle eye for Nigerian talents kept a healthy surveillance in the Nigerian soil.
Storming Lagos this time on invitation from Asaemi Football Academy with the Estonian agent of top Finnish side HJK Helsinki Michael and former Lobi Stars’ Finnish coach, Mika Lonnstrom, Saralinna was served up young talents to see up close.
Organizing a ten-team tournament was Asaemi Academy, also participating, traded wars with nine other teams from Lagos with Saralinna and company in the stands taking notes and nodding.
The talent hunt competition played at Cappa Training Ground, Oshodi, had academy players, turning up for their clubs in a single group format, consisting of 10 teams, fighting for Saralinna’s attention and dreaming up Finland.
Rapt attention wrapped up Saralinna and company as the teams played out their 50-minute game durations as the foreigners compared notes and subsequently nodded in agreement.
Five games of 50 minutes each seen through, Saralinna held his chosen list close to his chest as he continues his further assessments before his final decisions.
Saralinna reputed to have transferred tens of Nigerian players to Finland hopes to sell to the world another “Victor Osimhen” from Finland to the world when he finishes the processes.
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