Hello guys, my name is Bankole Abdullahi and I am a professional football coach. I am CEO and Head Coach of Bamise God Football Academy and I have been coaching for the past 9 years. My primary focus has been to keep this kid from bad influences and illegal activities. Welcome to my interview session.

Q – Can you describe your overall coaching philosophy and how it has evolved over the past couple years?

A – Oh it was a fantastic one. on the basic is cones,  the aspect of agility and then always ball pass and it’s working for me.

Q – How do you balance between attacking and defensive play in your strategy?

A – I like using the 4-3-3 so it gives me massive attack and massive defense options in open play.

Q – What qualities do you most value in a player?

A – Either short or tall players, I just want my players to be to just be determined and focused.

Q – How do you approach player development, especially for younger talents?

A – First of all I try to make them happy. Before training sessions or whatsoever, I want to teach them so they will be more focused. Encouraging them, put a smile on their face, treat them equally.

Q – How do you handle underperforming players and help them improve? 

A – I like to make them happy and drill them in touching the balls with their foot, put more focus on activities like jogging the ball, ball control and passing the ball.

Q – What has been your greatest challenge in the local football sector?

A – The greatest challenge here most in my area we lacks of fields and other facilities . There is no financial support over here. Balls, Cones, Bibs, After training refreshments. Every parent here should support there kids to focus more on there careers – I only providing this my self.

Q – Can you describe a memorable success story from your coaching career? 

A – I’m so happy that day I won a trophy in a local competition because there is a lot of parents and people in the community over there it was a great victory. It made my day. After that competition, some parents started bringing some of there kids to participate in football training sessions.

Q – What is your approach to dealing with injuries and player recovery? 

A – I like to make them rest until completely healed before coming back to football. Because football is play today, play tomorrow. So I have to let them rest because of their career ahead.

Q – What are your long-term goals as a coach within the local football sector?

A – To be sincere my long term goals in this coaching job is to help the kids not to join the bad gangs in the community.  For example, yahoo boy, hookup girls, area boys etc in the community. I try to give most of them educational materials and teach handworks like aluminum welding.

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