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Football

Peace Cup offers Nigerian youngsters a route to European scouting

Source: Premium Times · 24 Sep 2026, 10:20 UTC
Peace Cup offers Nigerian youngsters a route to European scouting
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Dominion Excellent Football Academy organised a three-day Peace Cup that brought young players from different parts of Nigeria together for an open scouting exercise. European football scouts monitored the event, according to Premium Times. The supplied material does not identify selected players, participating clubs or specific opportunities offered.

A three-day Peace Cup organised by Dominion Excellent Football Academy brought young footballers from different parts of Nigeria together for an open scouting exercise, according to Premium Times Nigeria. The event was monitored by football scouts from Europe. Its stated focus was to identify young talent and create opportunities for players seeking a route into European football.

The supplied material does not name the scouts, the European clubs or organisations they represented. It also does not identify any player who was selected, invited for further trials or offered a contract. No information is provided about the venue, the number of teams or players involved, or the matches played during the tournament.

The report does not state whether the scouting process has produced confirmed opportunities. The available details establish that the Peace Cup functioned as an open scouting platform for Nigerian players and that European observers attended. Further information about the tournament’s outcomes was not included in the supplied source material.

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