The Team Manager of Mighty Jets International Football Club Youth Teams, Sammy Adesoji, has lauded the Management of the club headed by Mbum Ferdinand, for contacting a professional and a seasoned Coach in Dokubo Ere Dabo.
Speaking to journalists, the Team Manager of Mighty Jets International Youth Teams, Sammy Adesoji reiterates: “I must commend Mighty Jets FC for bringing a Coach that’s so professional to the core. A Coach that understands a professional way a big club like Mighty Jets should be well structured and given a professional outlook. I’ve been in this club for sometime now. I started with this great club as the first Media officer in early 2000s before I became the Marketing Director. I can tell you that since Mighty Jets Feeders Team was created, we’ve never had a Coach that will give a look in into the Feeders team and gave the players opportunity to express themselves and play for the senior team. The most we’ve seen is Coach promoting only one player. But I must doff my hat for Coach Dokubo Dabo for being the first in Mighty Jets fc history to have invited 10 players from Mighty Jets Feeders Team and 4 players from Mighty Jets Under-19 Team to the senior team for trials, and at the end of the screening exercise, he signed 3 players from the Feeders Team(Sani Yahaya, Tongshinen Tom and Mohammed Mumtaz Sani) and a player from the Under-19 Team(Ahmed Abdulkadir). And the way things are going, couple with the body language of Coach Dokubo, more players from the Mighty Jets Youth Team will be given massive lookin to play for the main team. Why did I say so? This Coach always stay behind to watch our matches and sometimes our training session even after he must have trained the senior team for hours.”
On his own part, Coach Dokubo Ere Dabo has this to say when asked why the uncommon attention he’s giving to Mighty Jets Youth Team: “By the name Feeders it means to feed the main team and it will be criminal if by the end of the season you don’t find any player in the Feeder team worthy to be promoted to the senior team, meaning the system is not working. If the system is working, the Feeders team players should be able to feed the main team; that’s their work unlike some teams or some coaches that they will be going to other clubsides looking for players even players from their Feeder team are better than those ones they eventually bring from outside.”
Coach Dokubo continues: “For me, it’s home first. I look at what I have on ground. It’s only when I don’t find them worthy before I look elsewhere, otherwise you have to encourage them because it’s giving room for others to know that from the Feeders they can breakthrough into the main team.”
He concludes: “And of a truth, some of these players that graduated from the Feeder team to the main team are already making my first team to play in the first league match of this season. That’s another kudos. Not because anybody influenced them to the team, it’s their performance that earned them that position. They fought for it, they did well and am impressed irrespective of where they come from. It’s just a plus to encourage the Feeders team so that they can do more.”
It will be recalled that Mighty Jets Feeders Team who represented Plateau State at the President Federation Cup for the first time in their history, lost at the Round of 16 to Akwa Ibom State Champions, Akwa United. Mighty Jets Feeders beat Ogun State Champions, Imperial fc at the Round of 32.
Mighty Jets Feeders had earlier lost to Plateau United fc at the final of the State level. The first time they will play at the final since the club was established.
Mighty Jets International FC will be at away to FC Basira at the Lafia City Stadium in the opening match of the 2025/2026 Nigeria National League(NNL) on the 8th of November, at 3pm.
