Athletic Football Academy Kaduna has won the 2023-2024 Under-13 Bundesliga Cup Kaduna, beating its main challenger, Kuso Boys Football Academy 3-0 in final match of the tournament.
Athletic won the competition, which involved 24 clubs and started in August, 2023.
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Speaking after the final match, Mohammed Mohammed, the representative of the DW Hausa station in Kaduna, and the Bundesliga ambassador who organized the tournament, said this is not the first time that the Bundesliga Cup had been organized in the state.
According to him, it is the first tournament for the young footballers, aimed at promoting the sport at the grassroots.
” It has been held for 13 years. I have spent 5 years preparing this competition, but we thought of starting with the children, which will increase the children’s confidence and attract their attention to German Bundesliga.
He went on to say that “I was really happy with the way the young people played in the competition and it surprised everyone, but there is a need for the organization of the Bundesliga, the DFL and the Bundesliga itself in Germany to contribute to them.
“This is because the competition is better than that, and this will increase the Bundesliga’s reputation in Kaduna and big cities like Kano and the whole of northern Nigeria,” he said.
In the end, he said that soon preparations will be started for another competition in the year 2024, adding that it is expected that the competition would be better than the just concluded one.