Building careers.
Connecting continents.
Kickstart Sports LLC is a dual-registered sports management agency. We scout, develop and represent athletes as we bridge Nigeria, the United States and the wider world.
Building Careers. Growing Ventures. Connecting Continents.
Kickstart Sports LLC is a full-service sports management company built to move talent from raw potential to global opportunity. We identify and develop athletes, represent them through every stage of their career, place student-athletes with colleges and universities, and advise clubs and organizations through sports consultancy, bridging African talent with the world stage.
To empower and connect young athletes and organizations by providing the resources, services, opportunities and guidance needed to excel both on and off the field, fostering global sports excellence and connecting Africa, the U.S. and the rest of the world.
To be a leading force in global sports management, recognized for nurturing elite talent and creating pathways for athletes to succeed internationally, while serving as the go-to partner for international organizations entering Africa.
Our portfolio
Current Player Portfolio
8 Athletes
Slovakia
Zambia
Morocco
Nigeria
Benin
Scotland
Ghana
Affiliated Athletes
4 Athletes
France
Portugal
USA
Nigeria
Core services
Sports we cover
Investing in communities, not just contracts
In collaboration with Nigeria LNG Ltd., Kickstart Sports has helped organize grassroots football tournaments designed to empower oil-producing communities and youth across the Niger Delta, putting talent identification to work off the pitch as well as on it.
Team
Alexander Ndace
Alexander Ndace is a results-driven football executive with extensive experience across scouting, player representation, football data analysis, player relations, safeguarding and talent development. As a FIFA licensed agent, he has managed the careers of numerous athletes, helping them develop skills, gain exposure and navigate professional opportunities, backed by a data-driven approach to scouting and performance analysis.
His career spans multiple roles in football management, including a tenure as Assistant Researcher at Sports Interactive, where he contributed to bringing the Nigerian Premier Football League (NPFL) into Football Manager 2024 and 2025, alongside scouting work with Youth Scouting Global evaluating young prospects through video and data analysis.
Beyond scouting, Alexander has worked as sports manager for several athletes, including Nigerian youth internationals and NCAA student-athletes, negotiating contracts, building branding strategy, and coordinating tournaments and trials. He has pursued continuing education in football management, sports technology and international sports marketing through FIFA, the Football Association, Case Western Reserve University and the International Olympic Committee.
He's been where
they're going.
Long before Kickstart Sports, one of our own executive directors was the athlete making the leap, and that changes how we work with every athlete we represent today.
Before Yinka Ajibola was building Kickstart Sports, he was doing exactly what every athlete we represent is trying to do: earning a spot, an ocean away from home, on a college roster that owed him nothing. His development year took him to Campbellsville University in Kentucky, a first taste of American college soccer and everything that comes with it. A new country, a new system, a level of competition he had to catch up to fast.
In the summer of 2014, he took the next step and attended one of the biggest collegiate athletic tryouts in the country, held in Florida and attended by players from all around the world. The trial paid off. Yinka walked away with 13 scholarship offers, weighed on both athletic and academic merit, from schools across the United States.
He chose Mount Mercy University in Iowa, where he played center forward for the Mustangs from 2014 to 2017, the position that asks the most of a young player under pressure, judged only on what he does the moment the ball finally arrives. He finished his collegiate career there and graduated with a BA degree.
In 2015, that Mount Mercy team did something the program had never done before. It clinched a spot in the NAIA National Playoffs in Delray Beach, Florida, still a program-defining season in the school's history. Four years of early mornings, long bus rides and finishing runs like it taught Yinka exactly what it costs an athlete to get there, long before he started helping others make the trip.
This journey started small: alone, after school, training in our family compound in Ilorin, Nigeria, with nothing but the discipline my parents gave me. That discipline carried me through high school, where a recommendation from Nigeria's Sports Minister opened the door to the United States. Who would have thought?
My mantra has always been ‘Impossible is Nothing,’ but the game never came before my education. Balance mattered as much as ambition. This was the opportunity of a lifetime, and I took it with both hands.
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