Global Sports Leader and Digital Sports Technology & Marketing Consultant, Emeka Enyadike is the keynote Speaker as Ekiti state football and other sports administrators gather on an online Forum on how best to attract private investors to Ekiti sports.
The Webinar, focusing on the Ekiti State government’s vision on capacity building with the theme “Ekiti state football and positioning for the private partnership”.
Emeka, who is also the CEO of Digital Sports Africa and Vandyke Sports will be the facilitator on the Ekiti Football Builders Forum on Thursday 26th November 2020, starting at 7 pm.
Emeka will join the session from his base in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Emeka is one of the most trusted voices on African Football, an international Football Analyst with over three decades of experience with NTA Network Sports, SABC, Etv South Africa and so many years with SuperSport
He began his career in the oil and gas industry as an Oil Dealer and Petroleum Marketing expert with Texaco, consulting on numerous projects for Shell, Total, ExxonMobil, and Schlumberger before joining the KBR consortium of Technip, France, Snamprogetti, Italy, Kellogg Brown and Roots, USA and the Japan Gas Company and the Nigeria LNG Project.
Emeka began his Sports management career in business school at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt where he served as the University Football Team Manager for three years, earning a degree in Business Administration and Management, and halfway through his MBA program, he got sucked into the Oil industry before going on to earn the prestigious Euroleague Sports MBA, from the Euroleague Basketball Institute, Barcelona and Ca’Foscari University, Venice, Italy.
He would go on to executive programs at the London School of Business and Finance and the University of Bayreuth, Germany and the Olympic Studies program of the German Sports University, Cologne.
His passion for Sports led to the founding of Vandyke Sports and Nigeria Soccer Weekly Newspaper in the 90s and his award-winning TV show, Nigeria Soccer Weekly
Vandyke Sports is famous for Sports Marketing and Sponsorships intelligence with the Mega Basketball Sponsorships and relaunch of the then moribund Nigeria Premier Basketball League with Vmobile and DStv and numerous other deals as well as consulting to International brands across Africa on Sports Sponsorship and TV sports rights and major Sports Production.
Emeka and Vandyke Sports set high for organizing the biggest grassroots Sports tournaments in Nigeria, Nigeria LNG League, Shell Grassroots cup, Dresser-Kellog Cup and Nokia Defend your Street as well as pioneering street basketball with Adidas Streetball Challenge.
He co-Founded Kick Off Magazine in 2002 building one of the most successful Football Magazines on the continent.
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Emeka is a digital pioneer, co-founded one of the oldest Sportstech success stories in Africa, kickoffnigeria.com and Kickoff.com
He also founded vandykesports.com and was involved in driving bizcommunity.com into Africa in 2007.
He took his talent across Africa in his role as Africa Football Manager to SuperSport’s supersport.com’s and digital projects on the continent over the last decade
He co-founded the industry-leading African Digital Sportstech startup Digital Sports Africa and it’s globally recognized Africa Football Digital Benchmark with RESULT Sports of Germany and South African group, Sports Network Africa.
A consulate Sports Administrator, he was in the 2000s, Board Member of the Rivers State Football Association and Director of Sharks Football Club and later Board Member of the Rivers State Basketball Association and recently on the board of Bryanston Warriors in Johannesburg, South Africa and is President of his own development project, Vandyke FC
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