Commissioner Wants Professional Tournament Managers

The Rivers State Commissioner for Lands and Survey, Hon. Ezemonye Ezekiel-Amadi, has stressed the need for management of football tournaments to be handled by professionals.

Ezekiel-Amadi stated this while fielding questions from sports journalists shortly after the novelty football match between. All Stars Football Club of Elele and Emerelu  All Stars which took place at Omerelu play ground over the weekend.

He regretted that young-sters were handling local football matches with laxity, adding that football should be taken seriously, no matter where the tournament was holding.

“I am not happy that today youngsters and novices are handling local matches with laxity, the game of football should be taken seriously no matter the standard” Ezekiel-Amadi emphasised..

The commissioner who featured in the novety football match said that the objective of the match was to foster friendliness and peaceful co-existence  especially now that Christmas was at hand.

Also speaking at the game, Stanley Aja commanded the players that participated in the match.

It would be recalled that  All Stars of Emerelu and All Stars  of Elele played 1 – 1 draw at the end of the game.

Tonye Orabere