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New Dawn for Football, As Lagos FA Sets New Standards
Joel AjayiLagos State Football Association under the Leadership of Alhaji Gafar Liameed has continued to set new standards after headlining the front page of the Punch Newspaper of Monday 23rd of September 2024.
In what has never been seen in the history of State Football Associations in Nigeria, the story of the Annual General Assembly of the Lagos State Football Association dominated the Front Page of one of Nigeria’s foremost Dailies, the Punch Newspapers.
The Lagos State Football Congress has approved the sum of 3.6 Billion Naira for the State’s 2024/2025 Football season.
The Lagos FA boss Alhaji Gafar Liameed maintained that with the new approved budget, it means there will be total Grassroot Development, Referees Education and Coaching Education in the State.
According to him ” For us in Lagos, Football is a Media event and we are very big on Transparency and Trust in everything we are doing”.
” We understand the role of Corporate bodies in Sports Development and the only way they can come and partner with what we are doing is when they see that we are serious and trust worthy”.
” Football Growth is about Grassroot Development and there cannot be effective Development if you don’t have events effective programmes, and in Lagos we are very passionate about building the next generation of Nigeria Football talents”, he added.
The Lagos State Football Association has about Nineteen competitions to execute with each event having a budget of One Hundred Million Naira to carried out.
Some of the Competitions include, the Lagos Federations Cup, the Lagos State Football League , the Ibile Cup, the Lagos Youth League , the Freshers Cup , the Lagos State Queens Championship, the Oba’s Cup the Lagos Beach Soccer Cup and the Principal’s Cup just to mention but a few .
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Agada Shines with Brace as Orijent Beat Karlovac 2-0
Nigerian forward Charles Adah Agada scored twice as HNK Orijent secured a 2-0 away victory over Karlovac 1919 in the Croatian SuperSport Prva NL on Saturday.
Orijent produced an impressive performance at the Branko Čavlović-Čavlek Stadium in Karlovac to claim all three points in the league encounter.
Agada, a former Mavlon FC of Lagos attacker, was the standout performer, finding the net twice to help the visitors overcome their hosts and strengthen their position in the league campaign.
Orijent went into the half-time break with a 1-0 advantage before extending their lead in the second half.
The Nigerian striker completed his brace with the goal that made it 2-0 in the 57th minute.
Karlovac were unable to find a response as Orijent held on to their advantage to secure victory away from home.
The result represents an important boost for Orijent, who will look to build on the performance in their subsequent league fixtures.
For Agada, the brace underlines his value to the team as Orijent continue their campaign in Croatia’s second-tier football competition.
He has built an important role on loan at the club and has successfully established himself as a regular fixture in their lineup, appearing in all 8 league matches so far this season.
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