Edo 2020: ‘Rivers Abula, Team Ready To Defend Title’

Coach of the Rivers State’s Abula Team, one of the traditional sports in the state, Paul Asaah, has reaffirmed  his team’s readiness to defend and sustain it’s title as defending champions at the forth coming National Sports Festival (NSF) tagged “EDO 2020,”  scheduled to hold in Edo State.
Coach Asaah disclosed this, yesterday during an exclusive interview with Tidesports in Port Harcourt.
According to him, his team is ever ready and are in good shape for the competition, if it eventually hold this year, as expected, saying that no doubt the athletes would do the state proud as always.
“ Though, the COVID-19 pandemic came and hit the world and hold everything to a stand still, we have managed to  maintain our maintain our winning streak and l am sure that we will achieve the desired results at the fiesta,” Coach Asaah  said.
Coach Paul Asaah, who is also the National of Abula, explained that the team has currently intensify preparation to further fortify the athletes for the task ahead, saying that, in order to sustain their records, they have to do the needful.
“It is imperative that we do what is needed to sustain our records, even as defending champions, we must put in our level best to ensure that we defend and sustain our position as champions of the sport,”   he said.
Team Rivers, won all three gold medal at stake in the competition, male single, female single and the mixed double
It would be recalled that Team Rivers Abula, emerged winners of the past three editions of the competition, ‘Garden City Games 2011,”  EKO 2012  and Abuja 2018 respectively.