COACH  IN AL-AHMADI FOOTBALL ACADEMY GHANA

FOUNDER ANNY SPORTS MANAGEMENT

CEO
ANNY STEPHEN O.

Stephen Anayo Ogudu is a Nigerian footballer who started playing football at the age of two. He was born in Ebonyi State in the eastern part of Nigeria. Anny is the Only son of a family of five; he was considered a blessed child right from the moment he was born. His late mother was a farmer who loved her kids, especially her son Anayo. 

They moved to Enugu when Stephen was 2 years old, and he started playing football in the streets. Things were not perfect for them, as his mother had to farm to keep them going. At one point, Stephen left the house for hours to play football with his friends. As a resort to searching for him, his mother, Regina Ogudu, started calling him Anayo Ball. 

At the age of 3, Anayo started his primary education in Enugu state of Nigeria before he moved back to his hometown in Ebonyi state where he completed his primary basic education.

He finished his secondary basic education in Anambra and his hometown as well.He focused on trading and football before he later went into total football. This helped him find a team outside Nigeria, where he went for trial/justification.

Stephen has done many charity works as well as helping many young people to reach their potential, he later stopped his IT business and went back to his football career where is currently the head coach of Al-Ahmadi Football Academy located in Ghana

He started sports management in 2016 before he stopped playing active football to focus on coaching. He has done many things, both for his family and the community at large. 

According to the young CEO, my family is a football family, all my relatives and my immediate family play good football. Only a few played professional football, but that is past now because I have all the contact I need to push players higher, I hope in the future my family will be very proud of my work and my life as a person.

I know that I will have many professional footballers In the future, so I have to work for that now. I have started my career as a coach and hope to extend it to a different level. Furthermore, I know what this means to leave my business to focus on this, I will do my best to help footballers around me before scouting players to join my Management company.

It is a family business because my family at large supports anything I want to do, it is for the benefit of young kids, they don't have to pass through had moment I passed through growing up as a footballer. I will do my best, the coach said.

Stephen focused now on helping develop players in his current workplace, Al-Ahmadi Football Academy. He has a few players under his management who play for his current academy.