Port Harcourt teams pick South South tickets

PORT Harcourt City Academy and the Garden City's Network FC will fly the South South zone's flag at the knockout stage of this year's Gulder Ultimate Five-A-side football competition, scheduled to hold in Lagos next month.Both teams booked their places after reaching the final in the South-South qualifiers over the weekend. The two teams will join Gidan Bege FC and Supremes FC of North Central zone, and Ultimate FC and Etienne FC of South-East zone.In the keenly contested final match, City Academy defeated Network FC 2-1 to become the zonal champion. Apart from emerging the overall winner, the City Academy players also clinched two individual awards, the highest goals scorer and most valuable player awards.While the captain of the side, Keston Friday, was the leading scorer with eight goals, his team-mate, Kinsley Sokari, who scored five goals, was the MVP. Victor Wohuruche of Network FC was the second highest goal scorer with seven goals.Before the final match, City Academy had a swell time thrashing city rival, Port Harcourt City Babes, 7-0 in the semi-final derby. The first runner-up, Network FC, advanced to the finals after defeating another Port Harcourt-based team, Port Harcourt City FC, 2-0 in the semi-finals.
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