Lafia Local Government under-13 team on Monday defeated their Akwanga counterpart on penalties to win the second edition of Nasarawa Under-13 primary school football competition at the Lafia City Stadium.
Lafia emerged winner after scoring three penalty shots having played goalless at regulation time, with Akwanga losing all their three spot kicks.
The competition was sponsored by Aliyu Bello Charity Foundation in collaboration with Nasarawa State Football Association and the Nasarawa State Government.
It was organised to commemorate the International Children’s Day as well as the first year in the second tenure of Gov. Abdullahi Sule of the state.
Most Valuable Player
Meanwhile, Karu defeated Doma in the third place of the competition.
Speaking after the match, Gov. Abdullahi Sule congratulated all the teams that participated in the competition, especially the winners.
The governor expressed joy with the spirit of sportsmanship displayed by the players and their handlers throughout the tournament.
“You have shown that some of you can truly pursue carrier in football and we will support you in that regard,” Sule declared.
The governor used the medium to also showered the teams with various sums of money to boost their morale.
He first announced a flat prize of two hundred thousand Naira to all the participating teams from 12 local governments as one of the local government,Toto failed to participate.
Before prizes we presented to the winners, chairman Lafia local,the host local government commended the sponsor of the competition, honourable Aliyu Bello who is the state APC chairman for his dedication and commitment to bring the young children to not only compete for laurels but promote peace and harmony and the young children as well expose those that are exceptional talented and would want to make football a career to show case their talents.
Hon. Dr Aliyu Bello State APC Chairman (Sponsor of the competition)
Various prizes were award to the teams as well as trophy which was presented to the winner, Lafia Local Government and also to the two runners,Karu and Akwanga.