NAN-S-7
Football
By Victor Okoye
Abuja, Nov. 2, 2016 (NAN) The 2016 FCT Principals Cup for inter-secondary schools football competition in the FCT is to begin on Nov. 8.
Mr Patric Nwaogu, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, made this disclosure in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the competition was earlier scheduled to kick off on Oct. 26.
He said the shift in the date followed a series of activities involving secondary schools in the FCT, which made it difficult to kick start the tournament as earlier scheduled.
Ngwaogu, who doubles as the First Vice Chairman of the FCT FA, said, “in this kind of tournament, we have to key into other activities that the schools are involved.
“Within the last one week, the students have been engaged in various activities that are also designed to ensure that they are adequately empowered in their studies.
“Therefore, since these activities have been arranged to last for not more than five days, we decided to adjust our programmes to accommodate them.
“We are kick starting the Principals Cup on Tuesday, Nov. 8 in five centres; comprising of Kwali, Gwagwalada, Kuje, Wuse and Karshi.
“We have 72 schools taking part in the male competition while 20 schools will participate in the female category.
We have also decided that the finals would come up on Friday, Nov. 25’’.
Ngwaogu appealed to individuals and corporate organisations to come forward and identify with the FCT Principals Cup.
He stressed that the competition remained the best thing that ever happened to the grassroots football development in the territory.
NAN also recalls that the winners of the first edition of the tournament in 2015, FOSLA Academy, played up to the finals of the 2016 NNPC/Shell cup competition.
Also, two of the players, who were invited from the tournament to the National U-17 team, made the starting lineup of the team that played Niger early in the year. (NAN)
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Edited by Johnson Eyiangho
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