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Nottingham Post
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Mark Whiley

Nottingham Forest rename special event in memory of former academy player

Nottingham Forest’s annual academy tournament will be held in memory of the late Derrick Otim.

The former Reds academy player drowned in July 2020 after taking a boating trip with friends in South Carolina. He was 24.

The tournament, held on the City Ground pitch, will be renamed the Derrick Otim Trophy and will raise money for his family. A date for the tournament will be confirmed in due course. Nick Marshall, a former Forest academy coach, has been fundraising for Derrick’s family. Now a coach at Liverpool, he told Otim’s mother about the trophy, saying she was left in tears by the gesture.

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