Adron Sports Foundation promises more sport driven tournaments as basketball championship records success

By Saheed Afolabi

Over 50 teams were invited to partake in the Adron Sports Foundation community/schools slam and dunk championship held at Milo basketball court, Ilupeju.

In the boys category, Wolves emerges champions by beating CDA to second position.

Director of operations Adron Sports Foundation (ASF), Oladapo Emmanuel stated the foundation is a youth driven foundation that which will focus on empowering and encouraging meaningful participation in sports.

“Adron Sports Foundation is a youth based, driven foundation which is focused on empowering and encouragement meaningful participation in sports. We have a vision to become the leading sports foundation, which is promoting grassroots sport development in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large, he told Echonews.ng.

“All thanks to God, our Group Managing Director of Adron homes and properties, Aare Adetola Emmanuelking whose vision is borne out of his passion for sport and the idea is to go to communities, schools to search for talented kids who are sport driven and that was what brought about the basketball challenge we had at Ilupeju.”

Oladipo said the ASF chose basketball because of how dynamic it is as be reveals plans of also looking into other sports.

“We chose basketball because we are a very Dynamic association, we tend not to limit the opportunities that are within our reach to just football. We understand that football is a popular sport but then basketball is also equally a very popular sport.

“We thought to carry everyone along and organizing a basketball tournament that will help in locating talents, discover themselves and to encourage them to continue with their vision for basketball.

“We still have plans to look into football programs or tournament, which will also help in discovering young football talents. We are an encompassing organization hence the need to organize basketball competitions.”