With
one of the highest prizes for a Five-a-Side Championship in Nigeria,
many footballers are rushing to register for the Gulder Five-a-Side
football tourney which closes to registration next week.
In a statement by
the organisers, co-coordinators from the 24 zones that will host the
event report that Nigerians are looking forward to seeing the best of
Five-a-Side football on display.
The competition,
which will kick off next month, will be organized on a zonal basis,
with the best 12 teams coming to Lagos for the final round of matches.
Some of the
co-coordinators for the event include former Super Eagles goalkeeper
Etta Egbe, who is in charge of the Calabar zone; Ndubuisi Opara, who
coordinates the Owerri zone and Yomi Peters who takes care of the Lagos
Mainland Zone. Others are Sylvester Odigie for Benin, Ayo Owolabi for
Warri and Ralph Chidozie George for the Enugu Zone.
The Gulder
Five-a-Side tournament will see each team having eight players and four
officials. It will be held in three regions comprising eight zones
each, with Lagos demarcated into Epe, Lagos Island, Badagry, Apapa,
Mainland, Ikeja, Ikorodu and Iyana-Ipaja. The East has Port-Harcourt,
Calabar, Aba, Umuahia, Enugu, Owerri, Onitsha and Asaba, while Mid-West
is made up of Warri, Benin, Akure, Oshogbo, Markurdi, Abuja, Ibadan and
Abeokuta.
The sponsor,
Nigerian Breweries PLC, has undertaken to fully kit the 12 finalists
that will emerge from the three regions in the competition. The kits
will include football boots and jerseys, amongst others.
The overall winner
will receive N5 million for their effort, just N2 million will go to
the runner up side and N1 million to the third placed team, in the
competition.
The registration
and participation for the competition is open to all who can access the
24 cities that will be hosting the games, which will be played in
enclosed venues with Astro turf endorsed by FIFA.
Players who seek to
be part of the team that will be registered upon fulfilling the
requirement of providing 50 uncrushed Gulder cans or 50 Gulder bottle
labels, must be 18 years and above, and must not be registered in any
of the national professional and amateur leagues organized by the
Nigeria Football Federation and the Nigeria Professional League Board.
Registration forms can be downloaded from www.gulder-nigeria.com
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