Okuoka elated with award
The winner of the
highest goals scorer awards of the just concluded Gulder Five-a -side
tournament, Happiness Okuoka, says winning the award is one of the best
things to happen to him in a long time.
Attributing his
feat to the efforts of his team mates, Okuoka said the award will spur
him to greater heights. The player, who was the hit man for
Ajegunle-based 401 Road Planners, notched up seven goals to emerge the
tournament’s leading scorer.
“I am excited by
this award,” he said. “It was the result of hard work. More
importantly, it was the result of collective effort of the team.
Without the co-operation of my team mates, I would not have been able
to accomplish it.”
Okuoka’s team,
Planners, emerged winners of the five -a-side tournament after beating
a determined Talent builders of Lagos Island via penalty after the game
ended 1-1 at full time. The match, which saw the two teams going for
each other’s jugular was watched by a full crowd of spectators at the
Astroturf of the New Gymnasium Complex of the National Institute of
Sports (NIS) within the National Stadium in Lagos.
The tournament,
which began in March, was played in different centres across the
country with the final 12 teams coming into Lagos for the last leg of
the tournament.
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