President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji
Ibrahim Musa Gusau, has warmly felicitated with notable football investor and
proprietor of a number of football clubs in the country, Hon. Kunle Soname, as
the billionaire business mogul celebrated his 59th birthday anniversary on
Sunday.
Soname, a former Chairman of a local government in
Lagos State, has gradually but steadily built a charming profile as one of the
biggest investors in the beautiful game on the African continent, and indeed
the universe, with a portfolio that includes proprietorship of elite League
club Remo Stars (poised to win this year’s title in Nigeria), second-tier side
Beyond Limits and a women’s team, Remo Stars Ladies. He also owns a Portuguese
LigaPro side, Clube Desportivo Feirense.
All his teams have remained very competitive in their
different cadres and jurisdictions.
“As a Football Federation, we are enamoured by the
worthwhile investments that Hon. Kunle Soname is making in the game of football
in Nigeria, Africa and the world. To be proprietor of four different clubs
across continents and gender is no mean fit. We celebrate his love for the game
and wish him a very happy birthday and many happy returns.
“Apart from the clubs, what he has on ground at the
Remo Stars Sports Institute in Ikenne-Remo marks him out as a serious and
committed investor. A number of our National Teams continue to benefit from the
facilities and equipment therein, and the project is still ongoing. We pray
that God will grant him good health and long life to fulfil his dreams,” Gusau
said.
Nigeria’s age-grade National Teams, including the U20
boys (Flying Eagles) and girls (Falconets) and the U17 boys (Golden Eaglets)
and girls (Flamingos), as well as the senior women team (Super Falcons) have
camped and played matches at the magnificent family in the serene town in Ogun
State.
Only last week, Soname gifted the Flamingos the sum of
four million naira after their 4-0 defeat of Algeria’s U17 girls in a FIFA U17
Women’s World Cup qualifying match at the Remo Stars Stadium, at the sum of one
million for each goal
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