IN what looks like a departure from the usual fanfare associated with fans club, Skye Bank and FC Barcelona Fans Club has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on sports development and community-based programmes.
At the singing of the agreement yesterday in Lagos, President, Board of Trustees of Penya Barca De Lagos Club, Leslie Oghomienor, lauded the bank for collaborating with the club, which is an official licensed fans club in Nigeria, adding that a lot of programmes have been lined up to affect people lives positively.
“We want to thank Skye Bank for accepting to partner with us and we believe this collaboration will touch lives positively. We want to pay attention to youth development as well as lift grassroots sports in the country. Barcelona being a community-based team has been supporting community programmes and we will also be doing this by touching the lives of the less privileged in the country. We are more than just a fans club, but a club that will impact lives,” he said.
With the inauguration of the club on Saturday June 8, Oghomienor added the club plans to organize clinics with coaches coming from Spain.
For the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Skye Bank, Kehinde Durosimi-Etti, the relationship is a pathway to the achievement of the twin objective of fostering national unity and promoting business goals.
His words: “In recent years, FC Barcelona has emerged as a dominant football team in club football and the architect of the beautiful possession style of play known as the ‘Tiki-taka’. Its successes on the field in the past five years have led to a global surge in its fan base just as its trajectory continues on the upward plane. Skye Bank Plc has a rich and an enviable pedigree as a soccer force in the Nigerian banking industry where our football team has been dubbed ‘perennial champions’ by winning the gold trophy in the annual “Bankers Games” tournament for a record four times. We are here to start a collaborative effort aimed at advancing our respective interests through mutual co-operation and understanding, including but not limited to the areas of provision of support as may be required.”
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