The future of a nation depends solely on the quality of her youth. Present day developments and successes of any society is a measure of a structurally planned and organized youth program. Football, being an avenue for youth development has become a global business grossing in millions of dollars yearly. Youth academies have become the cradle where this can be nurtured for proper development of talents who go on later in life to become football stars and icons.

This perhaps is the reason why the Government of Kwara State took a giant leap to invest in the Kwara Football Academy (KFA), an avenue where talented youths from all over the country can be trained in the wonderful game of football. This Academy has been described as a mini Nigeria due to the fact that virtually all the states in Nigeria are represented here and it is hoped that the participation will be increased to other parts of Africa in future.

Apart from the wisdom in engaging our youths meaningfully, through a thorough reprocessing of their physical and intellectual abilities, the Academy provides quality programs that assist the students in translating their latent abilities into something worthy of pride and security for their future. Through the Academy, job opportunities of world standard are created and the State is opened up to economic opportunities at local and international levels and there is recognition and expansion of it’s network at various levels.

Again, KFA remains one of Governor Bukola Saraki’s greatest investments in the youth, through capability and capacity building mechanisms that is go beyond ethnicism and religion. Students from diverse background come here to develop friendships, skills and talents in a kind of study-play or learn-train programme designed to shape the lives of the students at the Academy, and transform their innate potential into useful causes for the future as they mature into professional footballers.