Pioneers emerge Covenant Football winners
The
final for the Covenant Football League ended on Monday with Peter
Pioneers emerging winners by beating Rock FC by a lone goal.
The match tagged
the ‘Final Showdown’ saw the favourites, Rock FC, coming up short
behind the eventual winners. A converted free kick in the seventh
minute put the Pioneers ahead and that made the difference in the match.
Rock tried every trick in the book to overcome the Pioneers but found their opponents’ defence to hard to breach.
In the second half,
tension arose as both teams tried to get on the score sheet. In the
75th, a scuffle saw Rock FC’s Akinyinka Oludele sent off for being rude
to the referee after he had been handed a second yellow card.
In the third-place match, House of Judah beat Zion FC by a lone goal.
David Mohammed, a
representative of Covenant Christian Centre, organisers of the league,
was happy that the final turned out successful:
“We started the league March 19 and I am happy that it has ended up like this,” he said.
The first, second and third place winners were all handed medals.
The highest goal scorer, Adeyemo Adetunji of Rock FC with eight goals
to his kitty was given a trophy while the golden glove was won by Idowu
Bakare of Peter Pioneers who did not concede a goal throughout the
tournament.
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