The coach of Ibadan-based Tripple 44 Football Academy, Abioye Oluwatosin is banking on experience he gained from playing in France and South Africa to help him lift the team to greater height, Sports247 reports.
Although he affirmed that the team’s owner and chairman, Mr Olatunji Okuku is not thinking of registering them for any level of the Nigerian league, the coach still has to give the players techniques to help them excel as professional footballers.
Coach Tosin, as he is fondly called, pointed out that the club’s boss is a full-fledged ‘football businessman,’ hence the need to get things right from the basics.
With that in view, Coach Tosin is bringing to bear on their training sessions at Bora Field, in Apata axis, tactics he learnt while playing for Shooting Stars of Ibadan, Amazulu of South Africa and Racing Colombes of France.
The former striker in his active days further pointed out that the style he teaches all players in the team captained by Bamidele Oluwafemi is to always be calm and patient when playing any match.
“My style is not the action-packed impact that many African strikers use. They like to rush and charge at opposing defenders, but I tell my players to play in a calm way.
“My philosophy is that you should go for victory with a calm approach. Be comfortable with the ball, use it well and apply your brain more than your strength,” Oluwatosin expatiated.
His strategy appears to be working, as the team, which was established in 2016, recently finished fourth in the 2025 Supremacy Cup at Legacy Pitch of Lagos National Stadium.
They also have several of their products who are now based abroad, among whom are Peter Olawale, Abel Oguche, Prince Amos, Emmanuel Godwin and their biggest graduate of the moment, Ibrahim Adewale at Mjallby of Sweden.
