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Wale Orims is the coach of Triumph Football Academy located on the Lagos Island where many young men get caught up in criminal gangs from an early age. A disciplinarian, Orims believes that football can be a force for good by drawing away boys from the crime in the ghetto to living a whole and fulfilled life. Lagos, Nigeria. 26/02/2010. The Triumph Football Academy on the Lagos Island in Lagos State is an academy for young footballers. Coach of the team Wale Orims says that playing football helps the kids in the crime-prone neighbourhood escape the dangers of the streets. 'When they play football they will be too tired to go and cause trouble' Orim says. So he tries to teach them not just physical fitness but psychology and motivation and also insists on his boys doing well at the studies in school. Many of the kids say they want to become like their hero Obafemi Martins of Wolfsburg who grew up in the same neighbourhood but made good through the game. The lads say that they would one day want to play at the World Cup even as Africa hosts its first ever Mundial this year.

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Football keeps kids off crime

DMTX. Wale Orims is the coach of Triumph Football Academy located on the Lagos Island where many young men get caught up in criminal gangs from an...

by Lolade Adewuyi in Nigeria on 26/02/2010

26/02/2010 - Football keeps kids off crime - Nigeria - DMTX. Wale Orims is the coach of...

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Football keeps kids off crime

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Football keeps kids off crime

DMTX. Wale Orims is the coach of Triumph Football Academy located on the Lagos Island where many young men get caught up in criminal gangs from an early age. A disciplinarian, Orims bel...
by Lolade Adewuyi, on 26th of February 2010

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