Olympique Lyon and Rova Sports Academy have pushed the four-day scouting session that was set for this week in Nairobi to a later date due to what they termed as unfortunate constraints on logistics and organization. The event was initially set to take place for six days from January 5 to January 11 this year but was postponed to March and was to take place from Wednesday 9 March to Saturday 12 March but the new development means it will have to wait further. Olympique Lyon to scout in Nairobi in MarchThe four-day event was to target players, both boys and girls, born between 2008 and 2011, and would have sessions of different age groups conducted on different days except for the first day that would have a double session with trialists born in 2008 taking the morning session while those born in 2011 were to take the afternoon session.Following unfortunate constraints met by Rova Sports on logistics and organization, the football scouting session forecasted from March 9th to 12th of 2022 in partnership with @OL_English has been postponed at later stage. pic.twitter.com/CvlvDCDE4b— Rova Sports Academy (@RovaAcademy) March 3, 2022 Players born in 2009 were to take the morning session on the second day while those born in 2010 were to have the third day. The fourth and final day of the selection would have seen see all age groups conduct sessions.The Academy had earlier confirmed that successful trialists would have had the chance to be part of the Rova-Olympique Lyon elite football program that came into effect last year. Kenyan-born duo named in Somalia’s squad for AFCON qualifiersIn November last year, the Kenyan sports academy and the Ligue 1 champions Olympique Lyonnais signed a partnership deal that would see the two entities work closely to develop talents in the country for a period of three years until 2024.The confirmation of the partnership followed an earlier visit by a delegation of experts from the Olympique Lyonnais led by the Academy Director Jean-François Vulliez in September 2021 that carried out a sports diagnosis of the structure and jointly defined the axes of collaboration.Due to unavoidable circumstances, were getting in touch to let you know that Rova Sports Academy January Scouting has been postponed until March. Stay safe, and we will be in touch with more information soon.Keep registering here https://t.co/UCfbibIsBW pic.twitter.com/J3f7sSNHIs— Rova Sports Academy (@RovaAcademy) January 3, 2022 Rova SA is a private multisport academy that was launched in 2019 and was developed with the aim of developing wholistic Kenyan sportspersons and is based on the American model of education, offering an excellent “sport-study” project to support the best young talents from 10 to 17 years old to the top professional level.Kenya is the third country in Africa where the seven-time French Ligue 1 winners are setting up a strategic partnership, having successfully done so in Senegal and Morocco, the club becoming the first among the Top 20 European clubs to formalize elite technical cooperation with a local actor in Kenya.
