OSOGBO–As the the 61st Annual General Conference of Nigerian Bar Association, AGC is fast approaching and the draw for the football competition at the conference is nearer,the football team of NBA Osogbo Branch has boasted that they are participating in the competition for trophy not as a jamboree.
This was the position of some members of the team after training at the main bowl of Osogbo Ciity Stadium, Osogbo, yesterday.
In a release by the Publicity Secretary of NBA, Osogbo, Dawood Iyiola Ajetunmobi,Esq,all the members of the team are in high spirit and hope to win the trophy at the competition.
While speaking during the training,the Captain of the team,Hassan Agbelekale, Esq who doubles as the Chairman of the branch. disclosed that in the last 5 weeks,the team has been engaging in rigorous physical training that will make members of the team to last for the full duration of each match of the competition.This, according to him,is in addition to the strenuous training which can make a professional footballer green to envy.
“With the level of our training and preparation so far,we are the team to beat at the competition.We are going to the competition not for jamboree but to win the trophy”
Other members of the team such as Abbass,Kayode,Pelumi and Sonaike who spoke at the training exude high level of confidence and expressed their readiness to actively participate in the competition and bring the trophy back to Osogbo.
The Coach of the team,Mr Abdul Lateef Abiola also boasted that his team will win the competition.He asserted that in term of fitness the team is as “fit as fiddle”.He added that his boys have already done their medicals and have been given clean slate as far as medical fitness is concerned.
“In term of ball possession,ball distribution and defence,my boys are very superb.Our team will treat the conferees to best of football in Porthacourt”
If the level of confidence and preparation of members of football team of Nigerian Bar Association, Osogbo Branch are anythinging to go by,the saying that the spirit of olympic is to participate but not to win does not has a place in the team as far as Football Competition at AGC 2021 is concerned.
