StarTimes and DFL Deutsche Fussball Liga have announced that former Super Eagles captains, Jay-Jay Okocha and Sunday Oliseh, will feature prominently in the forthcoming StarTimes and Bundesliga Legends Tour to Africa, scheduled for December, this year.
From December 16 to 22, 2016, the two Bundesliga legends will be on a three-country trek to interact with African football fans and promote the German football league, as well as its official broadcaster in Sub-Saharan Africa, StarTimes.
Jay-Jay Okocha, Olympic Gold Medal winner and African Cup of Nations winner who played for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt, will travel to Nigeria and Ghana from 16th to 19th December. While in Lagos and Accra, Okocha will share his views on the Bundesliga during live studio shows and serve as co-commentator for Bundesliga matches.
The former Super Eagles skipper will also take part in various activities like football clinics, autograph sessions, five. Aside football, visits to grassroots academies, selfies and more with African football fans.
Sunday Oliseh who won the Bundesliga trophy, Meisterschale, the Olympic Gold Medal and the African Cup of Nations and played for Bundesliga clubs, 1. FC Köln, Borussia Dortmund and VfL Bochum, will visit Kenya between 20th and 22nd December, appearing as an analyst and guest with media partners. He is also expected to hold training sessions with local football managers and meet with football fans in Nairobi.
“We are very happy that Jay-Jay and Sunday will join the Legends Tour and we believe that African football fans will enjoy a wonderful week with the two legends shortly before the end of the year,” the Overseas PR Director of StarTimes, William Masy, said.
Stressing the importance of the Legends Tour, the Managing Director of DFL Sports Enterprises, the commercial arm of DFL, Jörg Daubitzer, explained that it is a way of taking the Bundesliga experience out of Germany.
“With fans all over the world, we have the duty to take the Bundesliga experience out of Germany. Over the last year’s activities like the Legends Tour have brought us closer to our supporters, showing them what the Bundesliga stands for.
“With the StarTimes and Bundesliga Legends Tour, we are enabling fans to get close to two of the biggest African Bundesliga stars of all time and to experience our league at first hand. We see a huge potential for the Bundesliga in Sub-Saharan Africa with its enormous amount of passionate football fans. With the great number of former and current African Bundesliga players we can build on an intense and long-dated relation to the continent,” he stated.
While Jay-Jay Okocha is rated as one of the best dribblers in Bundesliga’s history, Sunday Oliseh left his footprints in Köln, Dortmund and Bochum as rock-solid midfielder.
In 2015, StarTimes signed an exclusive broadcasting contract with DFL Sports Enterprises for five successive seasons (2015/16 to 2019/20), acquiring extensive media rights to provide exposure of the Bundesliga in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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