2015 Winners Golden Bet/Lagos SWAN Cup Draws Holds In Lagos

The Press conference and Draws for the 2015 Winners Golden Bet/Lagos SWAN cup took place on Wednesday 17th of July, 2015 at the association’ secretariat situated inside the Lagos National stadium, Surulere in an event chaired by its chairman, Fred Edoreh.

The event which started around 12 noon was also attended by the title sponsors, Winners Golden Bet and also 5Sports who have also partnered Lagos SWAN for the 2015 “Lagos SWAN Week” which holds at the Legacy pitch of the National Stadium.

Draws for the 2015 Winners Golden Bet:Lagos SWAN cup

In his opening remark, Chairman of Lagos Sports Writer Association of Nigeria, Fred Edoreh commended journalists present for finding a time out of their busy schedule to come for the event which officially heralded the commencement of this year’s edition of the Lagos SWAN Week, The Opening Ceremony comes up on the 24th of July with the game between SWAN veterans and Nigerian ex-internationals.

Also speaking at the event Debo Oshundun chairman of the Lagos SWAN Sports Committee assured that this year’s event promises to be action packed, Explaining that the Addition of the “Tug Of War” Competition to this year’s SWAN Week was Geared towards Adding Spice to the SWAN Week, Oshundun While Thanking Title Sponsors Winners Golden Bet And Other Partners like the Nigerian Sports Awards, OWU Sportswear and 5 Sports limited called on well meaning Corporate Bodies and Nigerians to come Partner with SWAN towards making events like this more Successful.

The Draws Proper was Conducted by the Immediate past Vice Chairman of Lagos SWAN and Lagos State FA Board member Wale Joseph, Assisted by Lagos SWAN Sports Committee member Tega Onajaife.

Last year’s Silver winning team City FM are drawn in Group A with Radio Nigeria, Voice of Nigeria and SuperSport Nigeria.

Group B is made up of TVC, SilverBird Television, Sports vision, Inspiration FM and Cool FM.

The NTA will face Nations/Sportinglife, Channels Television and Skysports Nigeria in Group C. And Last but not the least Defending Champions Sports battle with News Agency of Nigeria, Complete Sports and Top Radio.

Fixtures for the Group Stages of the Winners Golden Bet SWAN Cup will be released on Monday and The Legacy pitch of the National Stadium in Surulere will host all the matches for this year’s edition of the SWAN Cup.

Chairman Lagos SWAN Sports Committee Debo Oshundun And Chairman Lagos SWAN Fred Edoreh at the Draws for the 2015 Winners Golden Bet/Lagos SWAN cup

Group A

City FM,

Radio Nigeria,

Voice of Nigeria

SuperSport Nigeria

Group B

TVC

SilverBird Television

Sports vision

Inspiration FM

Cool FM.

Group C

NTA

Nations/Sportinglife

Channels Television

Skysports Nigeria

Group D

SportsDay

News Agency of Nigeria

Complete Sports

Top Radio.

SWAN Cup Registration Extended…,

SWAN Cup Registration Extended As Press Conference And Draws Now holds On Thursday 16th July 2015

Following pleas from interested members of the Lagos state chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria and after due consultations with the Lagos SWAN Exco the sports committee chaired by Debo Oshundun has decided to extend registration by two days to allow more interested member organizations register for the Football event of the “Lagos SWAN Week” this also implies that the to the Press Conference and draws for the 2015 edition of the SWAN cup sponsored by Winners Golden Bet earlier scheduled for Tuesday, 14th of July, 2015 will now hold on Thursday the 16th of July 2015.

In a statement issued over the weekend, Oshundun said that although the numbers of teams already registered as compared to last year’s edition can be described as impressive, the committee while apologizing to all who had already made plans to attend the Press Conference and draws on Tuesday however believes that the two day extension will allow more members to procure and submit their forms so as to be a part of the 2015 edition.

The Chairman of the committee stated that the committee has promised to be fair to all before and during the competition saying that “the SWAN cup is not tailored after any football competition in the world, but an avenue for our members to relax, exercise and create a sense of camaraderie, hence the need to allow every interested members to participate” The sports committee also announced that the 1 week event will feature a novelty match between ex-internationals and veterans of the association on the 24th and an all-encompassing Seminar to be delivered by experienced technocrats, also coming up on during the seminar will be a health talk on healthy living plus a Medical Outreach were members and guest will have their Vitals checked and Over the counter drugs handed out.

Lagos SWAN Cup 2014 finals

The football competition amongst member organizations will be highlight of the Lagos SWAN Week but this year’s Edition will Witness the introduction of Tug of War in collaboration with Nigeria Tug of War federation.

According to the Secretary of the Sports committee, Sola Rogers, with the successes recorded in 2014, over 10 media member organizations have registered for the competition with last year’s finalist City FM the early birds followed by Current Champions Sportsday, also competing in this year’s edition are Cool FM, Sportsvision, Top Radio, Supersports, Television Continental, Skysports and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria.

Last year’s quarter finalist Silverbird Television/Rhythm FM captained by Ladi Egbedire while procuring their 2015 form boasted that they have put last year’s disappointment behind them with their resolve to aim for the ultimate glory by carting home the gold medal.

This year’s Opening ceremony promises to be exciting as former football stars of yesteryears such as Victor Ikpeba, Jonathan Akpoborie, Tajudeen Disu, Etim Esin, Aziengbe Iyoriobhe, Yisa Shofoluwe, Ipaye Wasiu, Raymond King, Simeon Bremner Alada, Micheal Dominic, Friday Ekpo, Tajudeen Ajide, Raymond King, Austin Popo, Clement Temele, Segun Oguns, Nicholas Ukadike and Peter Nieketen are all expected to file out on the 24th of July 2015 against the Lagos SWAN All Star Veterans Team at the Legacy pitch of the National stadium.

This “friendly match” which is scheduled to kick off proceedings for the “Lagos SWAN Week” will start at 3pm followed by a reception for all guest at the Lagos SWAN Secretariat immediately after.

The Committee also encourages All members to please help make the hashtag #LagosSWANCup a trending topic on social media throughout this period.

Sola Rogers
Secretary Lagos SWAN Sports Committee

FUNTURF MEDIA MACHINE 2014 GETS MORE COMPETITIVE AS TEAMS BATTLE FOR CRUCIAL POINTS

The On-going Funturf International 5-aside Media soccer tournament taking place at the funturf Lekki pitch entered day Two with more intensity and Dramma as teams battled each other to obtain hard fought results.

Two games were played out today in this Inaugural Edition of the tournament with all the teams geared up for League and points awarding format

AIM GROUP (COOL FM/ WAZOBIA) 1 – 0 VANGUARD NEWSPAPERS.

Pre-tournament favorites cool fm were the first to arrive the venue and walked into the pitch in a very different mood from the one they had yesterday.

This comes as no surprise considering their shock loss to ONTV in the opening game the previous day.

as a result of change of match fixtures…the C-WIN stars had to play Vanguard Newspapers team.
once again the game kicked of in a frenetic pace and aim group gradually took control of the game after matching the early enthusiasm and physicality of the boys from vanguard newspapers.

They got their goal (just about the same time they scored in the previous game against ONTV) in the 6th minute of the first half. the Goal was scored by attacking midfielder Wale who hit a shot that deflected off an opponent an roled into the net.

The Cool fm lads held onto this one goal advantage until the end of the first half. And it was the same lone goal that separated both sides at the end of the second half, although the outcome of the game could have been different but for the C-Wins Stars penchant for wasting glaring chances in front of goal.

C-WIN Stars have now picked up their first 3 points of the tournament.

Cityfm Tigers Warming Up before the match vs Vanguard Newspapers at the Funturf International 5-aside Media Soccer Tournament

VANGUARD NEWSPAPERS 1 – 1 CITY FM

Following the failure off TVC to show up for their game today against City Fm……they city Broadcasters were quickly rescheduled to play their second Game of the tournament against the freshly defeated Vanguard Newspapers.

The Apapa based vanguard boys voiced their initial fear of tiredness and lethargy but after a brief deliberation came back into the field determined to gain their vengeance on their first match loss by whipping the SWAN CUP runners up team called city fm.

Things seemed to be going according to their script in the first half as they seemingly took control of early exchanges, had more attempts at goal and looked like they were going to score a bag of goals with their inter change of passes, off the ball runs etc… this creek road angels looked a different team from the one that lost to C-WIN STARS OF COOL FM.

They eventually got their goal through star striker Emmanuel Eghaghaifo who was left unmarked by the City Tigers.

However that seemed to Ginger City fm into life as the Sola Rogers tutored City Tigers fought back ferociously with clear intentions not to loose their first game.

With Uche Agbai leading the attack line and taking shots from every part of the field the confidence of his teammates increased and some outstanding play put up by their OAPS, Wilfred and Stanley Mong, Sayo Owolabi, Samson Akindele brought them back fully into the game.

All the pressure being mounted by Cityfm eventually paid off as they scored a deserved equaliser through Samson Akindele, in what can easily be regarded as the goal of the tournament so far.

It was a close fought battle between both teams and the match eventually ended in a 1-1 draw.

Cityfm vs Vanguard Newspapers at the Funturf International 5-aside Media Soccer Tournament

MEDIA MACHINE Tournament games will continue tomorrow as all teams are expected to have completed their second round of matches

EDWARD CHIKE IBE

Lagos SWAN unveils sponsor, partners for SWAN Cup 2014

The Sport Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) Lagos Chapter yesterday at its secretariat at the National Stadium Lagos, unveiled Winners Golden Bet.com as the major sponsor for this year’s Lagos SWAN Cup billed to kick off next week Thursday, April 24 at the Legacy Pitch of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

The body also unveiled some of its other partners for the event which include Nigeria Sports Award; Owu Sports wears outfit among others.

Deji Beecroft Assistant General Manager of WinnersGoldenBet.com in his comment said that the company decided to support the SWAN because of the role of the sporting media in Nation building.

“Sports reporting is a very complicated job that needs lots of courage and sense of timing and Lagos SWAN members have done well in reporting events both locally and internationally thereby making it easy for Nigerians to follow happenings in this various competitions across the world, hence our resolve to support this event”. He informed.

Chairman of the body, Fred Edoreh said at the unveiling ceremony which also had in attendance ex-international, Paul Okoku as well as Vice Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association (LSFA) Alhaji Tade Azeez and former Head of Communications, Multichoice, Segun Fayose

“Our new sponsor, Winners Golden Bet.com is a reputable sports business organisation which has shown tremendous capacity and commitment to sports development and provision of added value for sports fans and enthusiasts and we are very happy and extremely grateful to associate with them for the SWAN Cup,” said Edoreh.

Ex-international Paul Okoku

The SWAN Cup designed to promote healthy living and friendship among journalists on the sports desks of the various media houses is the major feature of the Lagos SWAN Week. The week shall also feature a seminar on “Sports journalism and nation building”, a topic which the SWAN chairman says “is most imperative at this point in the development of our nation.”

Meanwhile, the 16 teams participating in this year’s edition of the SWAN Cup have been drawn into four groups of four teams each. Defending champions, Complete Sports; TVC; LTV/Eko FM and Radio Nigeria are in Group A while last edition’s runners up, NTA leads Group B. Others in the group include City FM; Cool FM and Sportsville.

In Group C are former champions, SportsDay; SuperSports; Brila FM and Top Radio while Silverbird; Mastersports; Sky Sports and The Sun Newspapers are in Group D.
Edoreh announced that Team Lagos SWAN will take on Team Nollywood in a novelty match which will herald the opening ceremony of the championship.

Kunle Adeyeye of FRCN Conducting the Draws

Group A
Complete Sports
TVC/Radio Continental
LTV/Eko FM
Radio Nigeria

Group B
NTA
City FM
CoolWazobiaInfo
Sportsville

Group C
SportsDay
SuperSports
Brila FM
Top Radio

Group D
Silverbird
Mastersports
Sky Sports
The Sun Newspapers