Aroh tips Eagles to land in Brazil

[Mirror]

The Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Anambra State, Dr. Edozie Aroh, says the Super Eagles will win their match against the Walya Antelopes of Ethiopia today in Calabar.

The match is the last in the series of World Cup qualifiers between the two teams and a win will guarantee the Eagles' qualification for the 2014 finals in Brazil. Aroh made the favourable prediction at the closing ceremony of the maiden Gov. Peter Obi Traders Cup final at the Rojenny Games Village, Oba, on Thursday.

He said that the transformations in Nigeria's sports industry were yielding good results as evidenced in the victorious outing of the Super Eagles in the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa and the victorious outing of the Golden Eaglets in the United Arab Emirates.

The commissioner said that Anambra was working assiduously for the achievement of the national policy on sports development through the organisation of various sporting competitions in the state.

He revealed that the talent discovered from the state sports festival, school sports festival, Gov. Obi's Unity and Traders Cups competitions would be nurtured to form the nucleus of the state-owned clubside which is in the pipeline.

"We have come to the finals of yet another talent-revealing football competition for our brothers who could not participate during the previous ones. "In line with the transformation agenda in sports we are not relenting in our efforts to develop Anambra youths in spite of the limited time of this administration. "For the Super Eagles match against Ethiopia, I have no doubt in my mind that they will win and earn a place in Brazil.

We hope they will sustain the winning streak of the Golden Eaglets," he said. In the very entertaining final match of the Traders Cup, Nkwo Ogbe market, Ihiala, defeated Bright market, Onitsha, by 6-5 on penalties after a pulsating 1-1 draw at regulation time to win a prize money N900,000 and N600,000 respectively.

In the third place match, Oyema market, Aguluzigbo, were 1-0 better than Timber Shade market, Awka to go home with N400, 000 andN300, 000 respectively. Special awards were also extended to the Most Valuable Player, Best Goalkeeper and Highest Goal Scorer of the competition. A total of 23 markets and trade groups participat

[Folami David]

And they already did. 2 goals to nil was the result we needed to qualify. Great one

[Shola Sholaz]

We already they will qualify when they beat Ethiopia at home 2 gaols to nil. The game ended there!