Category: Sports

Kunle Adelabu & Mariam Akinloye -Jaiyesimi, Unizee, TCCG, Edunz win opening matches The opening matches of the much expected 13th Bolowotan Gold Cup tournament, popularly called ‘Ikorodu World Cup’, kicked off on Monday, June 14, 2021, with great football displays, fantastic goals, commendable officiating and sportsmanship reactions from spectators. The tournament, which was initially scheduled to start on Saturday, June 12, 2021, and later Sunday, June 13, 2021, failed to kick-off due to the aborted June 12 protest and a social party held at the Police Barracks Playing Grounds, Igbogbo…

Kunle Adelabu In every tournament, there will only be a winner but the process is always multifaceted, tasking and challenging and that’s exactly what the 13th edition of the Bolowotan Gold promises to showcase this year, as 32 teams set to begin hostilities for the ultimate prize. A total of 72 matches are expected to be played in the tournament which will kick-off on Sunday, June 13, 2021, while all the matches would be played at the Police Barracks Playing Ground, Igbogbo road, Ikorodu. Danny FC will host Otungbuwa FC…

Kunle Adelabu -IDFA parleys team, managers, referees ahead of June 13 kick-off date All is set for the 13th edition of the longest football championship in Lagos State, Bolowotan Gold Cup, as the Ikorodu Divisional Football Association (IDFA) parleyed major stakeholders in preparation for this year’s tournament. According to the organizers, 32 teams will be participating in the tournament that will be played at the popular Police Barracks Playing Ground, Igbogbo road, Ikorodu. The Director – General of the Lagos State Sports Commission, Mr Toyin Gafaar Bolowotan, the initiator of…

Kunle Adelabu -Team misses out on Australian tournament due to lack of support The Chief Coach of the Ikorodu Table Club, Mr Sunday Kuti, has disclosed that lkorodu and Lagos State have lost many talents in table tennis to other states because of lack of support for players at the grassroots. He revealed this to THE IMPACT at the weekend while training young players from Ikorodu that will be representing Lagos State at the national championship at the Teslim Balogun Stadium which is starting today. Coach Kuti told THE IMPACT…

Kunle Adelabu Master Kuti Mathew, a 12 year old student of United High School, lkorodu, has emerged National Champion after winning Table Tennis Cadet and Mini – Cadet categories at the 14th Aso Table Tennis Club Annual Championships (ATTC), in Abuja. Matthew, who started playing table tennis four years ago with the encouragement of his father who is the coach of the Ikorodu Table Tennis Club, achieved the feat beating other champions in the presence of many dignitaries. The table tennis wonder kid, who is in high spirit, is also…

Kunle Adelabu Adeboruwa Boys were merciless in their final match of the second round of the just concluded National Beach Soccer League (NBSL) as the club crushed their Edo counterparts 7-2. The team, which won all the three periods of the game on Saturday (yesterday), beat Edo BSC 3 – 1 in the first period, they led by 4 – 1 in the second period and went on to add three more goals in the third and the final period to end the match on a high, scoring 7 goals…

Jare Babatunde Players of the Igbogbo Beach Soccer Club returned to winning ways on Friday when they engaged Smart City BSC in a derby at the second round of the National Beach Soccer League (NBSL)  in Kebbi State. Adeboruwa defeated Zulu Boys 4 – 5 to win the match played at Birnin Kebbi. The Igbogbo team with the win against Smart City now occupies second position on the table. The team media officer, Mr Dolapo Ewulogbo said that the match was tough but Adeboruwa Boys had a deserved victory. He…

Kunle Adelabu It is going to be another cracker today in the ongoing National Beach Soccer League second round going on in Kebbi State as Igbogbo Beach Soccer Club (BSC) go against another Lagos team,  Smart City BSC, in Birnin Kebbi. The Adeboruwa Boys lost their first game against KADA BSC in a fierce match yesterday which ended 5 – 6, but the team is well motivated to confront Zulu Boys who beat them  2 – 3  in the first round of the league in Lagos. While Zulu Boys are…