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Rivers FA Cup: Go Round FC Defeats Rivers United

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Go Round FC over came the hard fighting Rivers United Academy in a Rivers State FA Cup QUARTER final played on Wednesday at the Sharks FC Stadium.
Playing with ten men, Go Round FC opened scores in the 81st minute, through center back, Odinaka ONYIRHUMBA but were pegged back in the 90th through a solo effort of an equaliser by Omokhodion Zedi.
After the full time whistle sounded, the game went into penalty shoot outs.
In the shoot outs, Go Round Fc missed their first kick and scored the next three while, the Rivers United Academy missed their first two kicks, scored the third and then missed the fourth to lose 3-1.
Go Round’s head coach, Ngozi Elechi described it as a difficult game but blamed his boys for underrating their opponents.
“It was a very difficult game but I blame my boys for underrating them,” Elechi said.
“We beat Rivers United last season to win the Cup and maybe they felt that it would be easier since this was the junior team of United but I told them these things in the bus on our way here.
“I also tried out a few new players because we are playing a league and have other games while I know you would have to test these players so they have playing experience.
“In any case, I am delighted in the way the game went,” a happy Elechi said.
Coach of the Rivers United Academy, Sunny Iseokweima took delight in the fact that his side was not disgraced.
“We played against Go Round FC, a team doing well in their league and honestly in games like these you tell your boys to go out and enjoy themselves.
“We were not under pressure but they were and the important thing is that we were not disgraced because in penalties, anybody can win,” Iseokweima said.
Go Round FC will now take on Nationwide League side, Cynosure FC, unbeaten in all pre-season matches in the Rivers State FA Cup semi final.

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Bundesliga: Kane Scores Hat-Trick As Bayern End Winless Streak

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England captain Harry Kane netted a hat-trick to guide Bayern Munich to an impressive victory against Stuttgart.
Kane’s goals, plus one from Kingsley Coman, helped Bayern end a three-game winless run in all competitions.
They faced a tough task against a Stuttgart side who sat back and limited their chances, leading Vincent Kompany’s side to enter the break frustrated and with the deadlock unbroken.
Bayern eventually found a way past Stuttgart’s steely defence when Kane drilled a low effort into the bottom corner from around 30 yards out after Joshua Kimmich overturned possession.

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Dosu Survives Ghastly Accident, Again

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Former Nigeria goalkeeper, Dosu Joseph, is full of thanks to God after he miraculously survived another life-threatening automobile accident recent at Kara, along the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way, where a heavy-duty truck ran into his SUV.
Narrating his ordeal, the 51-year-old, who guided Nigeria to gold in the Men’s Football Tournament of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, broke the news in a statement on his social media handles on Friday.
“To God be the glory, another death escaped by Grace and Mercy of God. Me and my friend SM were at Enyo Filling Station after Ojodu Berger bus stop to get fuel on Wednesday, October 2, 2024, around 6 p.m. when this MACK truck fully loaded with iron, with registration number LND 470 XX, left the road and crushed my car beyond repairs. Thank God for life,” he stated.
This is the second time the soft-spoken club proprietor will cheat death by a whisker, having been involved in an accident in 1997 that ended his career at 23 and left his spinal cord in bad shape.
He helped Julius Berger win the Nigeria FA Cup in November 1997 shortly a memorable Olympic outing by keeping a clean sheet in the finals against Katsina United. The following year, he was involved in the auto along Ikorodu Road, Lagos, which not only cut his career short but also left him almost paralysed, ending his spell at Serie A club Reggiana.
The former Nigeria international, who also kept goal for Julius Berger FC, said the case has been reported to Isheri Police Station, Ogun State, where the driver is currently detained and the truck also seized.
According to him, the owner of the truck said he can’t fix the badly damaged SUV until after a year.

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Sports Development Going Down In Nigeria – Ex-International

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Ex – Super Eagles of Nigeria, Okwuchukwu Waobikeze has observed that sports development in Nigeria is going down.
According to him, grassroots sports is very important, without it, the administrators cannot get it right. So everybody should key into grassroots sports development, he said.
Waobikeze said this last Wednesday in an interview with sports journalists shortly after the Port Harcourt All Stars Independence football festival (OCTOBERFEST) at the Port Harcourt club, Rivers State.
He explained that for sports administrators to get it right, grassroots development is key. “They should be organising competition at the grassroots level to fish out the young ones for different sporting activities.
“Grassroots sports is very important so the administrators have to go back to the grassroots.
” Sports Development in Nigeria is going down we need to go back to the basics.
“Look at the just concluded Paris Olympics, Nigeria did not win any medal.
” Our football team did not even qualify for the Olympics. We are going down.
” If they should go back to the grassroots, they will get young ones in the games and talents will be developed.
” I started from school games, to youth games before playing for the national team. Now everybody wants to fly board to play professional football and a lot do not know the basics of the game.
” A lot of people did not know the little things about the game, they just want to play. It is not done so,” Waobikeze stated.

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