Sharks Management Hails Coach, Player Over Award

Management of Sharks
fc has congratulated Gbenga Ogunbote and Christain Pyagbara for winning the League Bloggers Awards LBA for manager and player respectively for the month of April.
General Manager of Sharks, Okey Kpaluku who sent the congratulatory message onbehalf of the management of the club from Kenya described the award as timely and well deserved by the coach and player.
Kpaluku added that the award will go a long way to motivate the team to break more ground this season and consolidate on its good run so far in the league by not dropping point at home and picking valuable point on the road.
“Let me congratulate you on the award which did not come to us as a surprise because you truly worked for it and am sure this honour will spur you (coach and players) to do more in the field of play,” Kpaluku said
Responding, technical adviser of the club and coach of the month of April Gbenga Ogunbote who was excited with the award commended the League Bloggers Awards for recognising the input of coaches on the growth of the game in the local scene.
He, however, attributed the award to the commitment and dedication of the entire team to duty and used the opportunity to call on fans of Sharks fc to come out in their numbers and support the team to victory, stressing that the ugly incident after the match against Enyimba fc would not repeat itself again.
I’m am very happy with this award, it goes to show that somebody somewhere appreciates what we coaches are doing in our team’ and I commend the initiators of this award for  doing a great job,” Ogunbote said
And player of the month of April Christain Pyagbara who expressed shock after he was singled out of the lots in the elite league for the award assured fans of the team that the award will ginger him to channel  his energy into achieving the ambitions of the team this season.
“ I was shocked when I got wind of the award for the month of April and the much I can do now is do the best I can to ensure that Sharks FC wins a major silverware this season,” Pyagbara said
Gbenga Ogunbote emerged the manager’s award by edging out Kelechi Emeteole of Heartland, Salisu Yusuf of El-Kanemi Warriors and Paul Aigbogun of Warri Wolves, who were also shortlisted for the monthly award.
Ogunbote was honoured for guiding Sharks to the top spot of the league table and also masterminded their away win at Kaduna United while they went unbeaten in five matches from Match Day 7 to 11.
In the players category Pyagbara beat Saibou Badarou of Heartland, Osaguona Ighodaro of Enugu Rangers, Gbolahan Salami of Warri Wolves, Emem Eduok of  Dolphins, Nnamso Edo of Akwa United and his teammate and goalkeeper, Danladi Isah to emerge winner.

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