Freestan football club on Monday won the maiden edition of the Ekofootball Easter Beach Soccer Fiesta organised by Lagos FA. The one day soccer tourney which was held at the high-brow Hard Rock Cafe, Victoria Island, Lagos, featured Destiny Boys, Freestan fc, Collin Edwin fc and New Generation Academy, who tussled for the diadem in […]
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The FIFA U-17 Female World Cup draws held in Jordan yesterday pitched the Nigeria Falconets against Brazil, England and Korea. Expectedly, the draws have thrown up different reactions from various stakeholders and lovers of the game across the country. Reacting to the draws, Mojeed Adegbindin, a member of the Lagos FA, was confident that the […]
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Football Day returns to Social Media Week Lagos for a second, pivotal year with a celebration of Nigeria’s greatest ever football achievement, winning Olympic football gold.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of that defining moment for Nigerian football. In keeping with the #SMWLagos2016 theme of ‘The Networked African’ #SMWFootballDay 2016 will not only celebrate the stars of that stirring triumph, but will also explore how social media and technology can add value to Nigeria’s football networks of players, administrators, commercial partners and media.
Using the meta tags #WhenEaglesSoared and #Atlanta96Remembered, #SMWFootballDay2106 will drive conversation by tapping into the fans’ recall of that great moment, look into the social effect of that triumph, and honour the stars who made it happen by bringing them together for an #Atlanta96Remembered Reunion Match.
The game, between Atlanta 96 stars and Celebrity Lagos All Stars captained by comedian AY, will mark the opening event of #SMWFootballDay2016. Organised in partnership with Eko Football, the match will be played at Campos Mini Stadium on Sunday February 21, 2016. A Gala/Awards Nite to honour the stars at SS7 Lounge at VI later that night, will close out the day.
Social Media Week Lagos Board chairman Obi Asika says it will be a landmark moment “Social Media Week Lagos is excited and honoured to celebrate these perennial Nigerian legends.
“The Atlanta 96 Eagles provided one of the biggest moments in African football, with several African countries declaring public holidays.
“Please join us as we relive those special moments as a country and as a continent.”
The main sessions will take place at the Landmark Centre on 25 February, 2016 – and include an intimate chat with Sunday Oliseh, Atlanta 96 Alumni and current Super Eagles coach; as well as a panel of Atlanta 96 veterans recalling the tournament.
Speakers at the sessions will include NFF President Amaju Pinnick, LMC Chairman Shehu Dikko, Chairman of the Lagos State Sports Commission Deji Tinubu, Lagos FA Chairman Seyi Akinwunmi, Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh and Africa’s first ever Women’s Player of the Year Mercy Akide-Udoh.
Nigeria’s Premier National Football Fives Tournament Ended yesterday at the Campos Mini Stadium, Lagos Island. over 1000 teams from across Nigeria were Registered to compete in the six geo-political zones of the country and from the regional qualifiers 16 teams qualified to compete in Lagos for the title of National Champion and With the Honour of representing Nigeria at the 2016 F5WC holding in Bangkok, Thailand.
Defending Champions DE-Royal Fc of Lagos Island successfully retained the title they won last year after a nail-bitting final game against Ago FC of Ogun State.
De-Royal were stunned early on in the first half when Ago Fc opened scoring against the run of play, De Royal levelled up the score a few minutes before the end of first half.
The Second Half was a delight for the neutrals as both teams gave it their all, but it eventually ended 1-1 and it was down to the luxury of penalties which which was won by the DE-Royals Fc.
Kabiru Nasiru of De-Royal Fc was voted the Most Valuable player and his 7 goals at the National Finals were enough to also see him win the Golden Boot award.
The Olympic Milk Sponsored event witnessed a huge turn-out of fans who were treated to scintillating football displays by the various teams mixed with Musical Performances, Free-styling, Olympic branded giveaways and lots of Olympic Apple fruit drink to drink.
Mr Bayo Akande of FiveSports, Organisers of the event said: “we would like to thank our Sponsors Olympic Milk for their immense support we really appreciate the fact that the brand has come to identify with Nigerian Sports through their various sponsorship of Sporting events.”
“Our plan is to grow football fives in Nigeria, We intend to take it to such lofty heights that it would become the most popular form of football in the world.”
“We brought the Amputee Soccer players here today today for an exhibition game just so we can show the world a snippet of what we have planned for five a-side football”, the Lagos FA under 13 boys and girls and the under 15 boys have also shown to the world what they are capable of, this is just a tip of the iceberg as we reveal our long-term plans for five a-side football going forward.
“We also would like to thank our friends in the media who have been of immense help to this Fives tournament since hit the road last in search of the The best Five A-Side team in Nigeria”. We must commend all the state FA’s we’ve worked with on this project”
Akande Also used the opportunity to thank the Nigeria Football Federation and the Office of the Senior Special Adviser On Sports in Lagos State, for backing the Football Fives Initiative.
De-Royal Fc Will now represent Nigeria at the 2016 F5WC Finals holding in Bangkok Thailand from the 2nd to the 6th of march 2016.
On hand to cheer on the teams and lend support to the organisers were former Super Eagles Players, Victor Ikpeba and Jonathan Akpoborire, Olympic Gold Medalist Eniefiok Udoobong, NFF 1st Vice-President and Chairman of Lagos FA, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, Former Secretary General of the then Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Dr. Tijani Yusuf, Senior Special Adviser to the Governor of Lagos State On Sports Adeyinka Adeboye, Veteran Sports Journalist Yomi Opakunle, Samson Adamu MD Kinetic Sports (owners of the Copa Lagos Brand) and so many other dignitaries
The Lagos State U-15 football team, this evening stormed Sagamu, Ogun State, for the South-West zonal finals of the National U-15 football championship.
Team Lagos delegation of 23 players and five officials, led by the State FA Technical Committee Chairman Dotun Coker, is expected to feature in the championship alongside Oyo, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and host Ogun state.
The tournament is tentatively billed to kick off, Thursday, this week.
Speaking during a telephone interview, Coach Bankole Olowookere, brimming with confidence stated the readiness of Team Lagos, to come out tops at the end of the 3-day football championship.
“We have prepared well for this championship,” he explained.
“The state FA, has done their part in terms of preparing this team and the boys are ready to do the state proud” the highly-regarded youth coach enthused.
He, went ahead to praise the board of the Lagos FA, for its several innovative and result-oriented youth football developmental projects. “We want to win this championship,but what is of essence and importance to this state, is to produce genuine young and talented players, that would go on to represent the state and country in the nearest future” Olowookere, added.
The 2015 Edition Of the Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament Kicks off this Saturday the 12th of December 2015 at the Onikan Stadium Lagos. Following a very successful first outing in 2014 and also due to increased interest in the tournament the organizers have decided to make it bigger to accommodate a few more teams.
The Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament which was first staged last year as a one day event at the Campos Mini Stadium on Lagos Island and it is put together by friends and colleagues of Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi as part of activities to mark the Birthday of the Football Administrator who also happens to be the Chairman of the Lagos State Football Association (LSFA) and 1st Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
Seyi Akinwunmi has been involved in charity work for over ten years now and the Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament as been put to together to raise funds for the various charity work that the Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Foundation is involved in.
One of the major highlights of Last year’s event was the star match between the star studded Lagos All Star Team led by erstwhile Governor of Lagos State Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola SAN and The association of professional footballers of Nigeria (APFON) Selected side, The Lagos team All Stars won the match by 4 goals to one.
This year’s Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament will run for three weekends in December with the first set of games kicking off this weekend Saturday the 12th of December 2015 at the Onikan Stadium.
A total of 8 (eight) teams have been drawn into two groups of 4 (four) teams each, which will see the two best teams in each group qualify for the semi-finals while finalist will emerge thereafter.
The opening game of the Tournament will see Team E-600 take on Team MTN kick-off is 9am at the Onikan Waterfront, this game will be followed by 36 Lion Investments versus BURUJ immediately after the first game also at the Onikan Stadium.
The Third game of the day will commence at the 1pm between Team LCM and Team WOZA, followed immediately by the last game of the day Between Team ICOBA and Team TRINITY HOUSE at 3pm also at the Onikan Stadium.
Sunday the 13th of December will see all the teams converge at the Capos Mini Stadium for the second round of games. Team E-600 will once again play the first game of the day as they take ON Team ICOBA this game is scheduled to kick off at 9am, this will be followed by the game between Team BURUJ vs Team LCM, while the 1pm kick off is between Team WOZA and 36 LION INVESTMENT. Team MTN versus Team TRINITY HOUSE is the last game of the day and its scheduled to kick off at 3pm.
Speaking during the draws Chairman Of the LOC Mr Mojeed Adegbindin explained that the Charity mini Tournament was expanded to accommodate more teams hence the need to spread the games across 3 weekends in December.
Adegbindin stated that All the eight teams participating in the Tournament will return to the Onikan Stadium in Lagos Island on Sunday the 20th of December for the last set of group games.
Team BURUJ will tackle Team WOZA in the first game of the tournament at 9am followed by TeamTRINITY HOUSE who will square-off against Team E-600, The third game of the day is between 36 LION INVESTMENT and,Team LCM, the final game of the group stages is between Team ICOBA and Team MTN.
The top team from group A will face off with the second placed team from Group in the first Semi-Final game, while the top team from Group B will do battle with the Second placed team from Group A.
Member of the LOC and President of the Nigeria Referees Association Alhaji Tade Azeez revealed that The Final game of the Tournament will take place on 27th of December 2015 at the Campos mini Stadium Lagos, and it will be preceded by an exhibition game between the Lagos Based Glo NPFL Flag Bearers MFM FC and Ikorodu United FC. “This is to show Lagosians what the new NPFL Season has got in store for football loving Lagosians who have been clamouring for top flight football in Lagos for years now”
Azeez also seized the opportunity to call on Corporate Nigeria and also well meaning individuals to come support the Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament, as proceeds from the tournament will be used to support “Courage Education Foundation” a charitable organisation that is responsible for the the upkeep and education of well over 130 Indigent Nigerian Students, and several activities and projects of the foundation.
The National qualifiers for the Football Fives World Championship(F5WC) kicks off this weekend In Kaduna at the Hockey Pitch, Murtala Square, Kaduna. Matches will kick off at 10:00am prompt with over 100 registered teams set to battle it out for the two slots allocated to the Kaduna Centre of the National Qualifiers for the 2016 Football Fives World Championship.
This Tournament which is endorsed by the Nigeria Football Tournament Is Proudly Sponsored by Olympic Milk and it promises to be the biggest ever Five-A-Side Tournament ever witnessed In Nigeria.
Olympic Milk will Be taking One Lucky Fan to The Etihad Stadium In Manchester to watch Barclays Premier League Table Toppers Manchester City play an home game before the end of the 2015-2016 season, and this is just One of the Mouth watering packages to be unveiled by the sponsors and the organisers of the F5WC Qualifiers in Nigeria.
Qualifiers Will be held in six different Cities across Nigeria kicking off in Kaduna this Saturday the 21st-22nd of November, Next Stop will be Popular Sunny Abacha Stadium In Kano on the 25th-26th of November.
The Olympic Milk Powered Tournament Will Continue at the Astro-Turf, Maitama Gardens, Abuja from the 28th-29th of November then berth at the Rivers State University Sports Centre in the beautiful city of Port Harcourt on the 5th and 6th of December.
Abeokuta will get a chance to host the National Qualifiers on the 11th and 12th of December at the Popular MKO Abiola Stadium before the Final National Qualifiers moves to the Sport City in Lagos, were the Largest number of registered teams will converge at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos on the weekend of the 18th and 19th of December 2015.
Chairman Of the LOC Fred Agbi While Speaking to the media yesterday in Lagos, promised to bring to Nigerians a well packaged National Qualifiers but better still a glamorous and fun-filled Grand Finale In Lagos.
Agbi while Thanking the Sponsors Olympic Milk Also Used the opportunity to thank other partners, like The Nigeria Football Federation, and all the partner state FA’s like Lagos FA, Ogun FA, Kano FA, Kaduna FA, And The Rivers FA. The F5WC Nigeria Qualifiers is also proudly Supported by Brila Fm, Complete Sports And Sports Day Newspapers.
C.E.O Of 5Sports Limited organiser of the F5WC In Nigeria Mr Adebayo Akande also mentioned that the eventual winners of the tournament will get a whooping 1.5 million Naira, a giant trophy, Olympic milk products and branded items and an all expenses paid trip to represent Nigeria at the Football Fives World Championship(F5WC) Holding in Bangkok, Thailand.
Akande also mentioned that the Grand Finale tagged #RoadToThailand Will be between the 2 top teams from the various national qualifying centres mentioned Earlier with Lagos Providing 6 teams due to the high number of registered teams, all these also teams battle it out at the Campos Mini Stadium on Lagos Island on January the 15th and 16th.
The winner at the National finals in Lagos will represent Nigeria at F5WC World finals in Bangkok, Thailand from 2nd-6th March 2016.
The 2014/2015 Lagos FA Cup in collaboration efforts with Winners GoldenBet, will this Sunday kick off at the Agege Stadium, Agege with the Rookie matches.
New entrants, Freetan Sports football club will play another new comer, Odic Wire & Cable football club in the first match of the day at 8:00AM.
Dominion Hotsports football club will slug it out with Ascenders football club for the ticket to the round of 32 in the second match of the day by 9:30AM.
It will be the turn of Moses Olusegun football club and Goodland Rangers in the third match of the day expected to kick off at 1:30PM, The last match in the Rooky round will be the battle between Gbagada football club and Eko Akete football club at 3:30 PM.
According to Dotun Coker, chairman of the Technical committee of the Lagos FA, all matches for this year’s edition of the Winners Golden Bet sponsored Lagos FA Cup will hold at the ultra morden Agege Staduim, Agege.
He informed that lots of new innovations are been packaged for this year’s edition of the FA Cup, revealing that as stated by the chairman of the Lagos State FA, Seyi Akinwunmi all the winners of the round rookies games will get a cash reward of 15 thousand Naira courtesy of the FA Chairman among other packages ahead of the finals.
Coker charged all the clubs taking part in this year’s Championship to maintain a high level of discipline, saying the FA will not condone any act that will bring the game into disrepute.
“We at Lagos FA have done our home work well by ensuring that all the clubs taking part in this Lagos FA Cup are abreast of the rules governing the competition, hence the reason for the seminar organized by the FA on the FA Cup for the clubs taking part in this year’s edition, So they should try and follow the regulations governing the championship”. He noted.
Fixtures
Freetan Sports FC. Vs Odic Wire & Cable FC
Dominion Hotsports Vs Ascenders FC
Moses Olusegun FC Vs Goodland Rangers FC
Gbagada FC. Vs Eko Akete FC
NOTE: All Matches are to hold at Agege Stadium, Agege.
Activities to mark the birthday of the First Vice President of the NFF who also doubles as the Chairman of the Lagos FA Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi were unveiled over the weekend by the Chairman of the LOC for the one day event and board member LSFA Mojeed Adegbindin at a media parley in Lagos.
Adegbindin explained that the Event was conceived as a vehicle to help Barrister Akinwunmi expand the scope of the charity work he had been carrying for so many years.
Seyi Akinwunmi and a few of his friends have been the driving force behind the “Courage Education Foundation” a charitable organization that is responsible for the the upkeep and education of well over 120 Indigent Nigerian Students.
The event has been designed as a day of Fun and fundraising using one of the LSFA Chairman’s passion (football) to raise funds for another of his passions (Charity).
The Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament 2014 comes up on Sunday the 28th of December 2014 at the Campos Mini Stadium, Lagos Island, Lagos.
The event kicks off at ten am prompt with a match between the Under 15’s of Ekofootball, which also includes some members of the Nigeria National Under 15 team.
This match will be followed by a game between two female football teams in Lagos.
6 teams have been penciled down to do battle on the Sunday December the 28th and they are:
1, NFF/LSFA All Stars
2, APFON
3, ALL Stars International
4, Trinity House Team
5, Friends of Seyi (FoS) 1 – ICOBA
6, Friends of Seyi (FoS) 2 - WOZA
The association of professional footballers of Nigeria (APFON) will take on the All Stars International team parading the likes of ALIBABA, Victor Agali and Friday Ekpo just to name a few.
Also taking part in the Mini Tournament are The Trinity House team, and two teams formed by friends of Seyi Akinwunmi namely 1, Friends Of Seyi (WOZA) and Friends of Seyi (ICOBA), plus the sixth team made up of members of the NFF and LSFA.
Also on hand to lend his support to the project was the Special Assistant on football Matters to the Governor of Lagos, Gov Babatunde Raji Fashola, Anthony Adeyinka Adeboye.
Adeboye extolled the virtues of the LSFA Boss while pledging his unflinching support to the Seyi Akinwunmi Charity Mini Tournament.
Speaking at the media parley Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi said “One of the closest things to my heart is children, they are the very essence of being that’s why at Ekofootball we encourage children a lot”
“The main aim of the event and project is to empower the kids” by raising funds for children who cannot afford their education”
he added that “our foundation (I.E Courage education foundation) is about indigent intelligent children”.
Akinwunmi also stated that the princely sum of 1 million Naira will be set aside for indigent ex internationals who are bed ridden, or those with health issues while a certain percentage of the 1 million Naira will be set apart as seed money for an health insurance scheme which he intends to help guide the players union on how to set up and manage.
Finally Seyi Akinwunmi revealed that the event is going to be a yearly event and structures will be put in place to make it bigger and better going forward, Urging Corporate Nigeria and well meaning individuals to come onboard.
EkoFootball beach Soccer Tournament 2014: Owibesebe BSC Crowned Champions
Its Beach Soccer season here in Lagos, Nigeria and the Lagos FA kicked off activities for the new beach soccer season with a one day tournament that had defending champions of the Eko Beach Soccer League Owibesebe BSC battle against Bridge Boys Beach Soccer Team, Young Strikers Beach Soccer Team and Pepsi Football Academy Beach Soccer Team in a Four Team Tournament that took place at the Elegushi Beach in Lagos.
The First game of the day was between Owibesebe BSC and the Young Strikers BSC. Owibesebe didn’t not hesitate to put the Young Strikers BSC to the sword.
Two Quick fire goals in the early minutes of the first period set the tone for the game as Owibesebe Confirmed their superiority over Young Strikers. The game eventually ended 6-1 in favor of the Boys from Badagry.
The second game was no less exciting as the Pepsi Football Academy BSC drew first Blood but were made to pay heavily for this by the Bridge Boys who went on rampage putting seven past the Pepsi Goalie. The game ended 7-3 in favor of the Bridge Boys and this victory qualified them for the finals of the one day event versus Owibesebe BSC while Young strikers were now to battle Pepsi Academy BSC in the 3rd place play-offs.
The third place match saw Young strikers defeat Pepsi Academy BSC 4-2 and this was definitely a marked improvement on the first games both team had earlier played.
The final game was everything a final game should be, as Bridge Boys BSC and Owibesebe BSC didn’t waste time to show the spectators what stuff they were made off. Bridge Boys were the first off the mark with a stunning goal that left the Owibesebe Goalie Sprawling, But the Boys Badagry showed the mettle they were made off when they fought back from a goal down to level scores and eventually score one more to emerge champions of the EkoFootball Beach Soccer Tournament.
A couple Off dignitaries were on hand to grace the occasion, chief among whom was the Commisioner of Sports Lagos State, Enitan Oshodi, the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Football Matters Anthony Adeyinka Adeboye, First Vice Chairman Nigeria Football Federation And Chairman Lagos FA Seyi Akinwunmi, Vice Chairman Lagos FA Tade Azeez just to mention a few.
The Attention of Beach Soccer Lovers will now switch to the Eko Atlantic Beach, Venue of the Annual International Copa Lagos Beach Soccer Championship which Kicks Off on the 12th of December through to the 14th of December 2014.
The 2nd Season of the EkoFootball Beach Soccer League is expected to commence after the Copa Lagos International Beach Soccer Tournament
We’ve added few pictures from the 1 day tournament below:
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