{"id":7102,"date":"2025-12-03T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/strong-dove-football-academy-revive-former-arsenal-star-arshavins-memories-at-coker-field\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:44:17","slug":"strong-dove-football-academy-revive-former-arsenal-star-arshavins-memories-at-coker-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/strong-dove-football-academy-revive-former-arsenal-star-arshavins-memories-at-coker-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong Dove Football Academy Revive Former Arsenal Star Arshavin’s Memories At Coker Field"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Fond memories are being relived in the Coker-Orile area of Lagos about the glorious days that Arsenal of England enjoyed with their former Russian star, Andrey Arshavin (The Assassin), Sports247 reports.<\/p>\n

This is sequel to the presence of a youthful coach, Biodun Lasisi, whose nickname is \u2018Arshavin,\u2019 and he is currently waxing strong with Strong Dove Football Academy at a popualr venue known as Coker Field.<\/p>\n

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The sandy arena is known to have provided the foundation for the growth of iconic Nigerian talents like Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins, Benjamin Chukwuka Onwuachi and Nnamdi Vincent Oduamadi, but new stars of the future are now growing there under the care of \u2018Coach Arshavin.\u2019<\/p>\n

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The former right-back defender for Ultimate FC of Surulere told Sports247 how he was inspired to start his own \u2018football school\u2019 in 2012 because he felt a strong urge to discover fresh heroes at the ever busy pitch located within the premises of Coker High School.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have a sponsor, and the players have to support themselves with money sourced from their parents or saving their daily stipends for school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I always appreciate the efforts of the boys, ably led by my captain, Olaynka Saheed, who\u2019s also a strong central defender for the team,\u201d said Lasisi.<\/p>\n

He equally stated delight with how the under-13 boys\u2019 squad of Strong Dove FA recently made him proud by winning the 3rd Addbrand Youth Cup at Abalti Barracks near Ojuelegba, Lagos.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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Fond memories are being relived in the Coker-Orile area of Lagos about the glorious days that Arsenal of England enjoyed with their former Russian star, Andrey Arshavin (The Assassin), Sports247 reports. This is sequel to the presence of a youthful coach, Biodun Lasisi, whose nickname is \u2018Arshavin,\u2019 and he is currently waxing strong with Strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7102\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}