COACH LAWAL DANKOLI – ONE OF THE BEST YOUTH COACHES IN NIGERIA/ WORLD
Presently , he is the assistant coach of nigeria's U 17 team.
He started playing football from primary school LEA primary school in Kigo – Kaduna /sarduana secondary schools.
Coach Lawal Dankoli played professionally for clubs abroad # Haning Freeman FC (Denmark), Al – Arabic (Qatar) and Harte -en Naame ( Lebanon) Significantly,he has various top class coaching badges in Europe and Africa – with wealth of experience working with FIFA instructors.
SOME PLAYERS HE SCOUTED AND DEVELOPED
- Sadiq Umar
*Nura Abdullahi
*Usman Mohamed
*Kingsley Michael
*Orji okwonku
*Jamil Colins
*Denis
*Bonaventure
*David okereke
*Dele alanpasu
*Alfa Abdullahi…
Just to mention a few..
WORK ETHICS
Coach Lawal is a strong character with exceptional scouting abilities..often works hard for hours weekly preparing ,coaching and educating .With this kind of work ethic – he shows his players that he too is willing to put long hours he takes to be successful.
In this regard he demonstrates to his players that he will work as hard as he can and beyond .Once you have players respect you build there psychology to world class standard .
PLAYERS RELATION
The key to being a successful Coach /Manager is having a successful relationship with players _ Coach Lawal creates a embedded communication pathway that enables him to tactically, technically and logically imparts football ball fundamentals and education.
WORK RATE / TEAM ABOVE PLAYER
Coach Lawal demands great work rate from his players that is rarely seen in other teams or players .” He believes that players don’t win you trophies ,team win you trophies and recognition”( ideology to build team work) …The major character of Coach Lawal Dankoli teams and players …
That is key in his philosophy- guiding football College of Nigeria to win various tournaments around the world
HIS BELIEVE IN YOUTH
He has injected a great amount of trust into the young players who have come through the ranks.
Not only has this had the effect of improving Nigerian football, but it has helped create a hunger and high spirited system which has proved pivotal to the future development of Nigerian football.
Taking a chance on youth has increased the depth of the teams and provided a crucial chance to young players who are often neglected in other clubs.
QUALITY FOOTBALL/TACTICS
We can’t ignore the change in footballing quality that Lawal Dankoli has installed in the psyche of young footballers passing through his philosophy..
He has installed a high press and fast paced attacking football that has become a consistent trait of most successful players in European football he discovered.
It’s changed the facet of African football traits seen in players coached by Coach Lawal Dankoli.
BELIEF AND MAN MANAGEMENT
Coach Lawal deserves huge credit for improving individual players
who were lacking in confidence, morale and quality, and there were a number of ‘bad eggs’ in the ranks too. But by dedicating time to understanding each player and installing belief, he has transformed so many young players..
If Coach Lawal Dankoli can transform players the way he has done, who knows what he could achieve with national U 17 ,U 20 and 23 and the national team …he is one of the best youthful coaches in the world and in the future he could manage any top national team.
REMEMBER THE NAME- COACH LAWAL DANKOLI
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