Ascent Soccer Academy’s girls’ team have booked their place in the final of an international youth tournament after a convincing 2-0 victory, setting up a meeting with Bayern Munich, one of European football’s most storied clubs. The result, sponsors NICO Group said, offers the young Malawian players a rare opportunity to test themselves against elite […]
Ascent Soccer Academy has been praised by sponsors One Nico Group following an impressive first appearance at the Gothia Cup in Sweden, the world’s largest youth football tournament. The Malawian academy’s Under-14 boys made it through to the Round of 16 in the Boys Under-14 Playoff A, capping off a strong showing on their tournament […]
Ascent Academy has secured a K900 million sponsorship from Nico Group, unveiled on Wednesday at Kamuzu International Airport during a send-off for the academy’s soccer teams as they head to Sweden and Iceland for two international youth tournaments, the Gothia Cup and the Rey Cup. The deal runs for three years, with Nico Group putting […]
After a highly successful first year in the USA, Lilongwe based elite soccer development academy, Ascent Soccer’s starlet Lughano Nyondo has been offered a 4-year scholarship worth $65,000 (K48 million) a year to study at Brooks School, Boston. Following her initial move to the US in August 2019, at Indian Mountain School, Lughano excelled by […]
Lilongwe-based Ascent Soccer’s robust scouting efforts in 2019 saw it able to field a full girls’ squad, which it describes as an important milestone towards achieving its focus on 50/50 gender representation in the football academy’s age groups within five years. To achieve this, Ascent Soccer recruited Malawian college social science graduate, Chisomo Chikuni in October 2019 […]
Lilongwe-based Ascent Soccer became the first-ever academy to win both the Under-17 Presidential League and First Capital Bank (FCB) Under- 20 league titles in the same season in December. The U-20 title was decided back in October with last year’s U-17 Presidential League champions squad stepping up to the challenge of U-20 football, as the […]
Malawi’s Ascent Soccer has agreed to a working partnership with Uganda’s Football for Good (FFG) to grow regional youth football, scholarships and global pathways for the still untapped talent of East and Central Africa. The partnership was agreed on September 1st and in a joint statement, FFG founder Adrian Bradbury said since 2015, Ascent and […]
Ascent Soccer Academy’s pioneer graduates, Zobran Elias and Lughano Nyondo safely landed at New York’s JFK International Airport in the United States of American on Monday to begin the next chapters of their football and academic pursuits at Taft School of Connecticut and Indian Mountain School respectively. This will be Zobran’s second stint in US […]
Talented female player, Lughano Nyondo’s footballing and academic talents has earned her an amazing scholarship to one of America’s finest academic institutions, Indian Mountain School, Connecticut, courtesy of the Lilongwe-based football academy, Ascent Soccer (formerly known as Chigoli Academy). Lughano Nyondo is set to become the first Malawian young female to go for a double […]
Founder of Lilongwe’s Ascent Soccer Academy’s (formerly known as Chigoli Academy), George Maguire travelled to South Africa over Easter weekend where he met management of one of Africa’s biggest clubs, Mamelodi Sundowns for a possible sister-club relationship. Maguire said the two parties have agreed in principle that Ascent shall provide two to four of their […]