Eight teams for Edo Sec. Football Championship

Eight teams will compete in the 3rd edition of the Edo State Secondary School Football Championship, which will hold from October 28 to November 1 in Benin-City.

The event, powered by Edo Peoples Forum 2020, will see Idia College, Eyean Secondary School, Obiaza Mixed Secondary School, and St. Angela Girls Grammer School battle for honours in the female category, while Edokpolor Grammer School, St. David Mixed Secondary School, Arue Secondary School, and Ogue Community Secondary School will vie for honours in the male category.

The Chairman, Coordinating Committee for the championship, Lt. Col. Charles Asowata (retd), said that the competition supported by professionals in the diaspora is to give the same opportunity he had growing to secondary school students with the aim of developing their talents and making them become world stars.

He said the tournament is meant to develop the participants mentally, physically, and emotionally so that they would be able to study well and become great in their chosen career outside football.

“I urge the participants to take advantage of this competition so that they can develop themselves. It is a way of giving them the opportunity I enjoyed while I was growing up. I also commend those I term unsung heroes, who have supported the event financially,” he noted.

He also appealed to all football stakeholders in the state to support the tournament, assuring them that it will be enduring and has the capacity to churn out talents that would be presented to American colleges for scholarship.

Former Eagles’ coach, Alabi Aisien, commended Asowata and his team for instituting the competition and noted that the event would go a long way in discovering talents that will do the state and country proud in the future.

 According to the organisers, the winners in both categories will get N1 million, gold medals, a trophy, and a certificate of participation. The second-placed teams will smile home with N500, 000, silver medals, trophy, and certificate of participation, while the third-placed teams will get N300, 000, bronze medals, trophy, and certificate of participation.