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20 Teams To Rumbles At 4th Edition of Kopa Super Cup in Abuja

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3 years ago

July 18, 2022

It’s going to be a clash of Titans in Nigeria’s Capital Territory as 20 teams set to rumble at the 2022 Kopa Super Cup slated for 23^rd of July 2022.

The tournament is a grassroots football event that has been existing for the last four years to discover some talent that can represent the most populous in the black anywhere in the world.

Speaking at a press conference ahead of this year’s championship weekend in Abuja Tom George Kingdom said the aim of the tournament is just to promote grassroots football and help talented Nigerian youth who have no platform.

According to him, we are excited, because we have all our top teams scattered in different groups, so we want to see all it takes for them to qualify again.

“We have 20 teams participating, in this tournament, we are going to have basically 5 stages, the group stage, and the knockout round, quarter-final, semi-final and final, so from group stages all 20 teams have been fixed to 4 groups, and two teams will qualify from group stages.

“And our standards we have made a new name called big 8, we are going to come out with 8 teams that will participate from our big 8 tourneys next season.

“Nigeria has a lot of talent and it’s difficult for the NFF to go down to the grassroots and get these talented players. So, the vision is actually to go down to the grassroots levels, bring up these players and showcase them to the world because there is a lot of talent.”

Speaking also, was the representative of suicide football FC, Mr. Effiong Akwaowo expressed that his team is ready to come top at the end of the tourney.

“We were 2nd last season but this year we want to be the best, we narrowly missed the 1st slot last season, we believed we have learned some lessons from the mistake of last year and we are ready for this year.”

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NDSF: Gov Eno lauds NDDC , Dangles Cash Rewards to State’s Athletes for Medals

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12 hours ago

March 27, 2025

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, the Akwa Ibom State Governor has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for organizing the Niger Delta Sports Festival (NDSF), noting that it will help boost and promote sports tourism in the region while also discovering talents for national and international competitions.

“This is a huge opportunity provided by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), and I want to encourage everyone of you to take this seriously. From here, talents could be discovered for national and international competitions,” the governor said during a visit to the state’s athletes camp at the Dakkada Skills Acquisition Centre (DASAC) in Ikot Ada Idem in Ibiono Ibom local government area.

The NDSF host state is also aiming to top the Medals table as the state Governor during the visit promised cash reward for podium finishers.

He made the promise when he addressed some athletes from the state during an unscheduled visit to the DASAC camp.

Eno said his administration remains committed to sports development and urged the athletes to reciprocate the gesture by making the state proud at the games, assuring that the government will reward all the medalists.

“We cannot host this event and don’t win medals, so for every Gold, Silver or Bronze medal, there will be reward. I will receive you immediately after the games and I will reward the winners.

Over 300 athletes will represent Akwa Ibom in 17 sports at the Niger Delta Games starting from April 1 to 9 across different centres in the state.

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