{"id":7053,"date":"2025-11-24T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2025\/11\/24\/brave-heart-football-academy-makes-waves-at-mile-2-signals-barracks\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T15:11:11","slug":"brave-heart-football-academy-makes-waves-at-mile-2-signals-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2025\/11\/24\/brave-heart-football-academy-makes-waves-at-mile-2-signals-barracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brave Heart Football Academy Makes Waves At Mile 2 Signals Barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-11-24-at-1.12.33-PM-1.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A youth development and empowerment venture known as Brave Heart Football Academy is creating waves within the military confines of Signals Barracks in Mile 2 area of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Sports247 gathered that the team was founded by their current coach, Godwin Okere, who used to play as a right-full-back for former Super Eagles\u2019 star, Emmanuel Amuneke now defunct Nigerian National League club, Soccer Warriors FC.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/oriyomi-football-academys-simone-victor-creates-sparks-at-awo-cup-2025\/\">Oriyomi Football Academy\u2019s Simone Victor Creates Sparks At Awo Cup 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Okere told Sports247 that he established the academy in order to spot talents and expose them to achieve in football more than he was able to gain as a player.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sport-test-placement-from-wizard-3117735285 sport-target\" id=\"sport-2394793798\" data-sport-trackid=\"136764\" data-sport-trackbid=\"1\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/paddyplay.com\/trfypft8s\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"adv-link\" aria-label=\"AVIATOR-300_-728\u00d790-English\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AVIATOR-300_-728x90-English.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>He thanked his assistant coach, Emmanuel Iheanacho, for standing by him, especially as he combines the duty with training another team, Land Park FC, at Coker-Orile.<\/p>\n<p>Okere added, \u201cI am happy with the progress we are making with Brave Heart Football Academy. It has not been easy since we started about five years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have players in categories of under-8, under-10, ubder-13, under-15, under-17 and free age boys. Our captain is Ibrahim Lookman. He\u2019s a very promising midfielder ho is committed to the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also thank our Sweden-based mentor, Moses Ebuka, for allowing us to partner with his company, MSports promotions. This has really helped us to grow stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"\/> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Post Views:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">96<\/span>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/brave-heart-football-academy-makes-waves-at-mile-2-signals-barracks\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A youth development and empowerment venture known as Brave Heart Football Academy is creating waves within the military confines of Signals Barracks in Mile 2 area of Lagos. 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