“I use athletics as a means to elevate people from poverty,” he said.
While sorting the puzzles of his vision, Solaja earned a higher national diploma in accounting at the Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.“Actually, going into accounting is one of the greatest mistakes I have ever made,” he said. In the aftermath of Amusan’s historic feat at the world championship, Solaja reveals how he discovered her talent and his current financial challenges during this chat with TheCable.: My passion earlier was football. But along the line, I switched to athletics around 1986. That was when I started competing. First, in the long jump and then the decathlon. I stopped competing in 1996 and picked up coaching in 1997 at the police college ground in Ikeja.
But when they had an inter-house sport in Tobi’s school when she was in Junior Secondary School , I went there and noticed her talent. I was already training her, but that was when I saw her individual talent. I noticed her as a potential athlete.TheCable: When you started training her, did you foresee her talent breaking the world record someday?: At that time, she was so small. Even though she had that talent, she was tiny. We used to call her “Shanko” at that time.
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