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FCT Football Attention Shifts To Gwagwalada As Alaba Yahaya Cup, Odogwu U17 , Gwagwalada League Finals Hold Weekend
All football attention in FCT will be shifted to Gwagwalada this weekend as the finals of three important competitions will be played in the Area Council.
The finals of the 7th edition of the Coach Yahaya Alaba FCT Coaches Cup final will be played on Saturday 24 September, 2022 UBE Primary school Kutunku Gwagwalada. The match will be between Gwagwalada Football Coaches Council and Bwari Football Coaches Council. The match will be hold by 2pm. It will be preceded by a third place final between FCT Coaches Council and Abaji Football Coaches Council.
To qualified for the finals, Gwagwalada eliminated the FCT council, while Abaji were eliminated by Bwari coaches.
Meanwhile, at 12 noon at same venue, the finals of the 3rd edition of the Odogwu U17 Football Tournament would be played. The match which be between Kapital Waves FC and Medical Strikers Academy. Kapital Waves defeated Inspirational Sports Academy by a lone goal while Medical Strikers Whitewashed Golden Boys Academy by three goals to nil. The third place match between Inspirational Academy and Golden Boys will be played on Friday 23 September.
In a related development, the finals of the Gwagwalada Football League will be played on Sunday 25 September at the same venue. The final match will be between Catholic Cadet FC and Golden Boys FC.
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Mahanaim FC too good for Green Lock in first match of the year
Mahanaim FC kicked-off year 2025 with a victory over Greenlock FC on Saturday, at the Bwari Township Stadium. Goals from Aliyu Imran and Nambou Roman were enough to secure victory for the boys in our first match of the year.
Both teams hadn’t met since 2023 when we cruised to a 2-nil win over them. That result set the tone for our match on Saturday, with our opponents hoping to get one over us this time.
Our Coaches, Saheed Jimoh and Jackson Mbuk had set up a line up which had a blend of young players and the experienced ones, including Haruna Abdullahi, who also got a goal the last time we played GreenLock.
After the opening exchange in first few minutes, Haruna bursted through the middle into the opponents 18-yards, Dribbling his way past three players before setting up Aliyu Imran who finished the move with a goal from close range. The game became very close from that point onwards with only the goal separating the teams.
After the break, the match became more open as we pushed forward searching for the second goal. GreenLock FC came close a couple of times before finding an equaliser through a low free- kick from Samuel Daniel, that went past our Goal-Keeper, David Adolphus.
Barely two minutes after the equaliser, Haruna Abdullahi once again conjured a magical pass that found Nambou Roman who had replaced Aliyu Imran in the attack. Roman’s well timed run was complemented by Haruna’s defence spliting pass. Roman lobbed the ball over the on-rushing goalkeeper into the net, to restore our lead.
GreenLock FC fought fiercely to find an equaliser but our defence line which had Nura Yahaya, Jesse Mokele, Salisu Hamisu and Marcus Haruna stood firm with the help of the midfielders, Daniel Egwuatu and Ikoh Danjuma, as we gained another victory over GreenLock FC in our first match of 2025.
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