Legacy Football Academy from Kenya is scheduled to travel to Sweden for the world’s largest international youth football tournament dubbed Gothia Cup.The annual tournament, which draws 1700 teams from 80 nations take part and play 4500 games on 110 pitches in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.Nairobi boy credited for ‘miss of the century’Legacy Football Academy was pioneered by former Harambee Stars coach Stanley Okumbi and holds its sessions at the Karura Forest grounds every weekend.##NAJAVA_MECA_6501861##The team was enrolled in the Under 13 category of the Gothia Cup and will send 16 players to Sweden with 13 of them being Kenyans.Legacy Football Academy will use the platform to expose the players to professional football clubs who usually send their scouts in a bid to unearth the next best footballer.The academy has also set a target of gracing the finals of the tournament where their players will stand a better chance of being scouted. Kenyan academy finishes strongly in PolandThe players will travel in batches with the first travelling party already in Europe training with a number of top academies before linking up with the rest of the team in Sweden.The tournament is set to run from Sunday 17th July to Saturday 23rd July.
