Fast Growing Nigeria Football Agency, Desential Sports Agency Looking To Create More Career Pathways For Nigerian Players
The CEO of Desential Sports Agency, one of the fastest growing sports agency in Nigeria, Olugbenga Agbejoye has stated that the goals of his agency is to create more career pathways for talented Nigerian players.
The agency recently concluded the transfers of three players namely Oluwaseyi Okeowo, Ogunronbi Hawal Ademola and Cletus-Igwe Francis.
Oluwaseyi Okeowo is currently on the payroll of Dekernes in the Egyptian second tier league.
Desential Sports Agency also have Miekam Womene listed on its agency as one of its client as well as the current Head Coach of Bayelsa United, DIPREYE TEIBOWEI.
The fast rising Nigeria Sports agency is associated with world’s leading agency, SPOCS GLOBAL who have represented prominent names in the Football industry including names like Mohammed Salah of Liverpool, amongst others.
Both Desential Sports and SPOCS GLOBAL also co-represents one of the leading Nigeria’s top scorer in the Nigeria Professional Football League, Robert Mizo who plays for Bayelsa United as well as Victory Beniangba who currently plies his football trade in the Belgian Challenger PRO league with Jong Genk.
In the words of Olugbenga, the CEO OF DESENTIAL SPORTS AGENCY, he stated that ” our goal at Desential Sports Agency is to be a leading agency not just from Nigeria but Africa in a couple of years time and we are fast on track to achieving that. We believe there are thousands of talents spread across Nigeria and West Africa but there are little opportunities and lack of enough visibility for these players to be scouted and for them to actualise their goals and become Professional Footballers. Having identified that gap, we decided to float our agency and we have started creating career pathways for these talents to fulfill their dreams”
He further stated that three players signed to Desential Sports Agency will be heading to Europe soonest with the move facilitated by Desential Sports in collaboration with SPOCS GLOBAL.
Also speaking about the agency and what sets the agency apart and ahead of several agencies is Executive Director of Desential Sports, Sherif Hussain who stated that the agency offers wholesome services for its clients including representation, welfare, PR and media services and lots more. “We ensure that our clients are very comfortable, we are not just a broker agency but we provide total representation for our clients, to ensure that everything required of us to make them attain their full potentials are available for them. We will continue to create opportunities for Nigerian and by extension African players and managers to fulfill their potentials” concluded Sherif.
Desential Sports Agency will be organising a scouting tournament in collaboration with SPOCS GLOBAL later in September of 2023.