Oromma Wins Aggah Festival Football Competition

The Ezi-Aggah Village Football team also known as Oromma has emerged winners of the 2022 Aggah New Yam Festival Football tournament in men’s category, while the Yellow team, who donned the same colours as the male winners also won the female category in an exciting grand finale to the football competitions that marked the final days of this year’s Igwaji Aggah, in Ogba/ Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area, Rivers State, sponsored by telecom giants, MTN.
The competition, one of the activities that marked the ‘Igwaji’, (New Yam Festival) proved to be a befitting spectacle that brought the youth, elderly and children together at the Community School, Aggah sports field.
Indeed, it was exchange of fireworks, both in the women’s final decided earlier on Tuesday and the men’s final played later in the day.
The men’s final pitched the defending champions, Umuobiosu Village and Ezi-Aggah in what promised to be a close contest. Despite living up to its billing in action, passion and skills, the match was decided very early as two quick goals from Ezi-Aggah within the opening six minutes of the game separated both teams and dethroned the defending champions.
Umuobiosu, who started the game slowly and on the wrong foot, failed to recover from the early blows, despite late rallies against the determined and motivated Ezi-Aggah team. At the final whistle, it was celebration galore for fans and supporters of the winners, who took over the arena in ecstasy that rolled into the ‘Oyoo’ segment (awakening of the spirits) of the festival.
To get to the final, Ezi-Aggah defeated Umudike on penalty shootout after playing 1-1 within regulation time in the semi final, while Umuobiosu overcame Umuaba, also via penalties after a barren draw at the same stage

By: Gabriel Nwanetanya