BY EKPOR TEMPLE
The opening ceremony of the 2018 Edition of SWAN HENRY KALIO CUP took centre stage yesterday Monday, 26th November, 2018 at the Shark Stadium Port Harcourt.
At about 4:15pm the opening game of the tournament kick started with Treasure FM (last year defending Champions) ran away with a 1 Nil victory over the Wave fm Guys.
Though the encounter was highly thrilling, tough and engaging, the goal from Stanley Mogbalu was enough to separated the both side, with a fair officiating from Amadi promise.
The second game of the day saw (Cool wazobia Info FM) celebrity Team sink to embarrassing 5-0 defeat to the Excel Fm Ballers .
The Excel FM Team Christen "The Excel Ballers" claimed their first ever win in the 2018 edition of SWAN cup in a spectacular fashion to hand Chuma Nnoli his first defeat at the helm of the East/West road millionaires giants on his first game in charge as manager.
Coming into the match with much hype around the teamone would have expected a tough encounter. Instead, the reverse was the case as the Excel Ballers had their tactics well planned out and unleashed terror with sublime goals from Ovunda Prince, Kalapo Ismaila, Samuel Sobere, Kingsley Wike, and Emmanuel Kalu. The fans at the stadium indeed testified to the TIKI-TAKA style of game deployed by the Excel Ballers. No surprises, Samuel Sobere was honoured at the end of the encountered as the Man of the Match (MOTM).
The result in no way downplayed the chances of the CoolWazobiaInfo team from the title as their team manager still hope to win other of their group matches and progress to the semis.
Its a tough result that we didnt expect and we have to work to improve and adjust certain things that we didnt do well, but they are remediable, Chuma Nnoli said after the game. We are not pleased with the officiating, but we have to work to correct the mistakes seen today. The Excel Ballers were good, it went for them and we have to congratulate the young lads from Excel fm.
The host had the likes of Akaz Baba, Kofi Bartes, whose style of play was highly admired by the fans yesterday. The MVP Sawadhino also started staunchly but was later sent off by Isaac Ogasa (Referee) as he was involved in a breach of the game regulations.
In a pulsating end-to-end game, it was conspicuous the Excel Fm Ballers left CoolWazobiaInfo Fm thoroughly shell-shocked.
Excel fm Ballers courtesy of their 5 goal margin moved top of Group A, with a Joint point with Treasure Fm.
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