Freestan Win Eko Football Beach Soccer

By; AYO OJEDOKUN, Lagos

Freestan Football Club on Monday won the maiden edition of the Eko football Easter Beach Soccer Fiesta organised by Lagos FA.

The one day soccer tourney which was took place at the high-brow Hard Rock Cafe, Victoria Island, Lagos, featured Destiny Boys, Freestan FC, Collin Edwin FC and New Generation Academy, who jostled for honours in the competitive half of the event, while FCB Bescola and MTN traded tackles in the corporate half of the epoch and fun-filled beach soccer fiesta.

In the opening game, Freestan fc thrashed Destiny Boys 7-2, to qualify for the final of the tourney. And the second game, New Generation Academy defeated Collin Edwin fc 5-3, to light up a great finale.

The exhibition game between MTN and FCB Bescola was another thriller. At the end of the match, the youthful Bescola side lost to the better experienced MTN team 4-6.

The third placed match saw a resurgent Collin Edwin defeating Destiny Boys by 6-3.

But the final game was indeed, a testimony of gifted youthful footballers in the state. With New Generation Academy two quick goals up in the first quarter,before, Freestan hit back with three goals in the second quater, that saw the crowd that included Lagos FA Chairman and 1st Vice President of the NFF, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, President of the Nigeria Referees Association and Vice Chairman, Lagos FA, Tade Azeez, Godwin Dudu – Orumen, Ademola Beecroft, Collin Udoh and several other distinguished individuals in attendance.

The final quater of the game, New Generation levelled the score to 3-3. Minutes after, Freestan fc scored the winner to make it 4-3. And thus claiming the title as the winner of the tourney.

Speaking earlier, Tade Azeez, who doubles as the Chairman of the Lagos FA Beach Soccer Committee, expressed delight with the turn-out of guests and particularly, the high level of the competition and the sportsmanship displayed by the teams.

For Akinwunmi, beach soccer is growing in acceptance in the country. And that the state would not relent on its efforts to see that the game come of age in the country.