It was a week of fun, excitement and keen rivalry among 8 Primary Schools in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja as StartRite Wins Yoshi UAE Primary School Football Tournament.
The first leg concluded at the weekend at the 6 Astro turf field Wuse Zone 5 as Mshelia Bilal of Start Rite School emerged highest goal scorer with 10 goals where they defeated Raberto School 5-0 in the finals and went unbeaten in all five matches.
The 8 teams which were grouped into 2 recorded following results in the first leg
Group A.
Olumawo 1-2 Great Heights
Starfield 5- 3 Voyage
Olumawo 1-1 Starfield
Great Heights 0-2 Voyage
Voyage 1-0 Olumawo
Starfield 0-0 Great Heights.
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Group B
Creative Kids 0-7 Raberto school
StartRite 3-1 Esteem Learning
Creative Kids 0-2 StartRite
Raberto 0-0 Esteem learning
Creative Kids 0-0 Esteem Learning
Raberto 0-3 StartRite
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Semi final.
StartRite 2-0 Starfield
Voyage -1-1 Raberto (3-2) penalty .
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Final
StartRite 5-0 Raberto.
The second leg will be for Junior secondary schools this Saturday .
Coach Anyanwu Marcelo, the academy sporting director said, ”I am an advocate of grassroot football, I have been in Dubai for 11 years working and I have contributed to football grassroot development locally too.
I am supporting this tournament because we want to see what we can do at the grassroot level, that’s why I am giving him all my full support.”
”We are here to bring progress to the grassroot and our country Nigeria”; he added.
