Lagos agog for NNPC/Shell Cup 2016 finals

All roads lead to the main bowl of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos from today, Sunday, 12 for the semifinals and final of this year’s NNPC/Shell Cup for All Nigeria Secondary Schools Football Championship.
Championship National Coordinator, Shola Akinwale, said all the four teams that qualified for the semifinals and youth coaches from Feyenord FC, Rotterdam would be hosted to a luncheon today at the media centre of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.
“All the teams and youth coaches from Feyenord FC, Rotterdam are expected to have arrived on Saturday, June 11 while they would be hosted to a luncheon on Sunday, June 12.
“The youth coaches from Feyenord FC would conduct coaching clinic for players and coaches of the four teams on Monday and Wednesday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium,” Akinwale said.
The four teams would compete in the semifinals on Tuesday, June 14 and the grand finale hold on Thursday, June 16.
“All is set for the last stages of the championship. The coaching clinic is the usual practice in the history of the championship and this year will not be an exception.
“The semifinal matches will be tough, based on the performances of the four qualified teams, and football fans are expected to enjoy the best of football from the grassroots.
“As I said after the quarterfinals, all the semifinalists are as good as winning the trophy this year but definitely a champion must emerge from the four.
“All the qualifiers really lived up to expectation and that shows we should be expecting tough semifinal matches.”
The semifinalists are FOSLA Academy Secondary School, Abuja; Government Senior Secondary School, Darazo, Bauchi State; Excel Education Centre, Port Harcourt, Rivers State; and former champions, Asegun Comprehensive High School, Ibadan, Oyo State.