By: Ayorinde Olugade
The Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko male football team, Luminaries, has defeated the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti football team, FUOYE Dazzlers with one goal to nothing (1-0) in the pre-season match for the Higher Institution Football League (HIFL).
The match played on Wednesday at the school's Sports Complex continued with a goalless halftime as each team found it hard to find the back of the net.
However, the AAUA Luminaries team won the match with a goal scored from the penalty spot.
AAUA Luminaries coach, Fakunle Felix, known as Bishop, said the team had been training and preparing for the past three months.
Coach Felix, who said his expectation was for the team to win, added that the three months of training showed in the team's performance.
"We haven't gotten to where we are going. We are still pushing hard, encouraging them to do more and be better so that when we go for the qualifiers, they won't be afraid to play.
"With this present team we have now, I'm not very sure there's any team that can boast to beat us. If we can play FUOYE Dazzlers who were the runner-up last edition hands down, it shows we are preparing hard", the coach added.
Meanwhile, the FUOYE Dazzlers Head Coach, Blessing Ayodeji said his team tried their best but they were defeated, letting out that the team would return to the drawing board to amend their mistakes and do better.
AAUA Luminaries Captain, Ibrahim Ahmed, a 400-Level student of Chemistry Education expressed optimism the team would play well in the forthcoming HIFL competition following their triumph over FUOYE Dazzlers.
"I'm hundred per cent confident that we will perform so well in the HIFL competition with our performance today as we won the runner-up for the last edition of the competition.
Lawal Surajudeen added that the win was an improvement for the team for the forthcoming competition.
"Although, the Head Coach expresses his dissatisfaction with the team as they were unable to score a lot of goals they will be trained more so they can perform beyond expectations in the competition.
"I am very confident that we will perform so well in the competition by God's grace, as we are taking a mighty team to the competition."
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