Grassrunners FC has continued to lead in many ways why others follow as far as players’ development is concerned in West Africa. But that notwithstanding, the club keeps making constant huge investments to ensuring that they get their players up to speed with world class international standard facilities – this is mind-blowing.
To this end, the club is always searching for new ways or innovations on how to get better and better in the highly competitive sports management business.
A recent report reveal that the club is planning a complete in-house player development stack on hardware, which will be owned and the software exclusively written by the team. This is first of its kind in this part of the world. The GPS we gathered, will track every player training, match with the same metrics top European clubs use, that is a processing pipeline that turns raw GPS into individual session reports -distance, sprints, heatmaps, acceleration profile, longitudinal history per player.
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This is a game- changer, said Gbenga Agbejoye, Chief Executive Officer, Grassrunners FC. According to him, “this will completely enhance operational dynamics, while optimising output for a more effective result. It’s a coach-facing app that runs on Android and iOS phones, therefore any coach can read player’s report on the touchline. In simple terms: this is geared towards how to make Grassrunners players better, faster and visible because it eliminates guesses or estimation but enthrones exactness”.
This could explain why Grassrunners FC players have continued to dominate the headlines since Inception irrespective of having just spent less than two years in the business. They keep churning top -notch young talents that are ready to take the future of football in sub-Sahara Africa in the coming years. Their products are planted strategically across Europe, Asia and the America markets in tandem with their vision 30 by 2030, a clear -cut mandate to have thirty players in the top five leagues in Europe before the year 2030.
With the summer transfer window just opening, their players are already moving. Angelo Agbejoye recently joined Swedish club, Djurgårdens IF on a five years loan deal. Emmanuel Chukwu pitched tent with Austrian club, SC Austria Lustenau on loan from Bundesliga side, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, running until 2027 amongst many others.
Age is indeed just a number. Grassrunners FC may be a young club, but it has achieved so much in a few years. Projectively, it should be one to watch out for in the coming years ahead. From their training facilities to their management, down to the coaching staff and even the players to their camp, everything has a seal of champions.
