A 46-acre lot sitting on Corpus Christi’s Westside is soon to be the home of a new sports complex . But there’s one particular man behind it.
With distinguished roots as a Nigerian-American, Dr. Kingsley Okonkwo had dreams of being a businessman for years. But it was in high school and college, where he found his love for soccer. Fast forward to now, he is the owner of the Corpus Christi Football Club , which started in 2016—the first and only of it’s kind.
“I realized we didn’t have anything like that in Corpus Christi,” Okonkwo said. “So the idea and the idea and the concept came, can we build something here?”
One year later, the football club was registered to bring a professional soccer franchise to the city, which is known as the CCFC Sharks . Soon, they’ll have the field to call home — located near Old Brownsville Road and Cliff Maus Drive.
“What we’re building what will be a world class facility,” Dr. Okonkwo said. “Our athletes will be able to play soccer, baseball, softball fields. We will not need to travel every time.