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By Amaechi Agbo

The General Manager Godosky International Football Club, Chijioke Kismet has disclosed that the ambition of the Nnewi, Anambra state based club is to be among the elite clubs in the country, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report.

Mr Chijioke, popularly called ‘Obodo’ who disclosed this in an interview with Best Choice Sports yesterday in Abuja said the Nationwide League One campaigners has the ambition to be the best club in the country.

Mr Chijioke stated that the vision of the management of the club, in line with the passion of the chairman and owner of the club, Chief Godwin Agbasi aka Oga Ndi Oga, is to play in the elite Nigeria league in a shortest possible future.

He spoke to our correspondent, Amaechi Agbo after his lads lost 1-2 to the Flying Eagles team in an Africa Games warm up match played yesterday at the Package B of the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abuja.

“I am very happy that my team played the U-20 national team. I first of all want to thank the Chairman of the club who is the vision behind the team. He is a man who has passion for the youths and wants them to be fully engaged to be meaningful in their lives. He has been sponsoring people in various human endeavours, so football is not just the only thing.

“He has passion for youths’ development and that is why he established Godosky International Football Club. We are going to play in the NLO 1 but we are not going there just to make the numbers.

“Our target is that in five years’ time, we will one of the teams to beat in Nigeria league. The players have all it takes. We have a good team and they are talented but it is too early to assess them because they just come together. We have engaged professionals to be in charge of the team and that is why within a month, we came all the way from Anambra state to play the Flying Eagles. 

“Our mission is to grow higher for the world to know us and also to show the world the talents we have in our team. So that is why we travelled all the way from Anambra State, Ezinifite in Nnewi South Local Government to come and play the friendly in Abuja. We have the vision and we want to go higher.

“The club started five years ago and we have been playing some leagues in the state but because we have vision, we needed to go higher, not just to play but to learn. To challenge those who can give us the fight to improve. We have been playing series of friendlies. Our target is to belong to where football belongs,” he said.

Mr Chijioke also said that although it is not easy to fund a private club in the country for obvious economic reasons, he however said that the club has its head above waters when it comes to funding.

Godosky FC with this morning tackle Sporting Dream in another friendly match at the MKO Abiola practising pitch, Package A by 9 am today.