Midas Football Academy Team

NJOKU CHUKWUEMEKA FELIX

Head Coach and Manager

Coach Njoku Chukwuemeka Felix career objective is to pursue and develop a professional career in a reputable organization using my potential to add value in order to achieve corporate goal. He joined Midas football academy as a young and aspiring coach in 2011 and became the head coach and manager in 2015.

Coach Emeka won the famous Abesan cup championship for Midas football academy in 2013 and has successfully developed some talents for the academy that have gone on to play in United States colleges and third division soccer league. He is also involved in development of young players who now ply their trade with Nigeria national league teams and the Nigeria professional league teams. He has won some local tournament as a coach at different categories U-8, U-10, U-12, U-15 and open age. Coach Emeka earned his advance certificate in coaching and training from the national institute for sports in 2016 and a diploma from fcaan alongside his high school diploma.

Coach Emeka core competence includes effective and good communication skills, good sense of service, and significant attention to details, prioritization and time management skill, good administrative skills, strong analytical ability and ability to teach effectively. He is very passionate about helping the youngsters become the best version and to become successful football players. Coach Emeka’s mentor is former Manchester United legend Sir Alex Ferguson.

His hobbies are Traveling, reading, watching football games. You can reach him directly on: +2348022595194

UBONG MARCUS AKPAN

MFA South-South Representative (NG)

Marcus was appointed the exclusive South-South Representative of the academy in 2017 after a long consultation; he is a lover of football as he feels the sport is a perfect balance of mental and physical fitness. In his word, he also believes football has its own language.

You don't have to speak or dress a certain way or even know the same language communicate with another football fan or a football player. He is helping the academy to scout for talents across the South-South area of Nigeria and show them the right path to help them grow and become a professional player or be useful to themselves as an adult.

You can reach him directly on: +2348176019417.

BAYONLE ARASHI

CEO

Bayonle Arashi is a passionate media and soccer professional with extensive experience in the areas of communications, TV & Radio production, digital marketing, sports events management, public speaking. A certified U.S Soccer Referee and member of U.S Soccer Coach.

He founded Midas Football Academy in Nigeria set up to discover, educate and develop young football players and is planning to build a football facility where the players can combine vocational education and soccer to reach their full potential. The Academy has participated and won International youth tournaments in Germany, Denmark, Israel, South Africa as well as some local tournament in Nigeria.

He is the Founder of Scoutballers Soccer Recruiting a marketplace for football video creators to showcase their athlete videos and upload stats in other for the players to get recruited by clubs and colleges.

Arashi has over 20 years of experience in broadcasting having worked with Murhi International Group owners of (MiTV and Star FM) & Daar Communications Plc. owners of Africa Independent Television (AIT and Raypower FM) in Nigeria and Millenium Broadcasting Channel in Houston Texas. He is the producer of LIMITLESS SOCCER a weekly magazine show that features highlights of top leagues in Europe and the U.S Major League Soccer, as well as RUSSIA ROUNDUP, a show that profiled all the 32 nations that participated at the 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP in Russia. His shows air on African Broadcasting Network and Afrocentrik Television in Houston Texas USA.

Bayonle covered the Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia 2004, Egypt 2006, Ghana 2008 the FIFA World Cup in Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010 as a volunteer.

Bayonle is the author of ROADMAP TO A SUCCESSFUL FOOTBALL CAREER (A step by step guide) listed on Amazon and sellling worldwide. follow on all social media platforms as @bayonlearashi.