Broncos FC lift maiden Ogbomoso South Football Lovers Cup

Broncos FC lift maiden Ogbomoso South Football Lovers Cup

Khalid ABRAHAM

Broncos Football Club of Ogbomoso have won the first edition of the Ogbomoso South Football Lovers Cup Foundation beating Romeo FC via penalty.

Broncos emerged winners after triumphing 3-2 in the penalty shootout following a 1-1 draw at regulation time.

In the third place match, Eleven Lions won defeating Tara Rovers 3-2 similarly via penalty.

The competition was organised by a group of football lovers in the local government who styled themselves “Ogbomoso South Local Government Football Lovers Foundation (OSFLF).”

“Our aim is to promote football development in Ogbomoso and was opened to all football clubs in the land not Ogbomoso South alone, so, we thank all eminent personalities who assisted us,” Alhaji Sulaiman Toyin Oladosu, vice chairman of the OSFLF, told ogbomosoinsightonline.com.

The winners went home with a cash prize of ₦100, 000 (hundred thousand naira); second place earned ₦70, 000 (seventy thousand naira); third place ₦50, 000 (fifty thousand naira); while the fourth placed team was rewarded with ₦30, 000 (thirty thousand naira).

Mr. Bisi Awoye, chief organiser of the tournament expressed appreciation to the clubs that participated as well as to all spectators and all guests including Hon Sanjo Adedoyin Majority Leader Oyo State House of Assembly; Chief Imam of Ogbomoso South local government, Alhaji Abubakar Musa Adesoji; Mr. Adewale Aremu (CEO RemalGulf Nig Ltd) and Chief Moses Adeniji, among other dignitaries.

Hon Sanjo Adedoyin

Some exco members of Ogbomoso South Football Lovers Foundation are Rev’d. Dr G.O. Alagbe (chairman), Alhaji Oladosu Sulaiman Toyin (vice chairman ), Comrade Olabode A David (secretary), Comrade Idowu Ademola (treasurer) and Oladele AbdulRafiu Olajide (legal adviser).