THE Campos Mini Stadium in Lagos Island will today come alive as King's College, Igbosere, and Anwar-Ul Islam College, Agege, slug it out in the final of the maiden GTBank Heritage Cup.In its usual style of play, King's College beat rival St. Gregory's College, Obalende 4-3 in penalties in the semi-finals. Though St Gregory's showed relentless effort, it eventually lost in penalties to King's College in a match that had initially tied at 3-3 in regulation time.Also, the semi-final game between Anwar-Ul Islam College and Ansar-Udeen College, Isolo, ended 8-1 in favour of Anwar-Ul Islam, with Felix Joseph as the most valuable player.The two matches were held at the Onikan Stadium, attracted large turnout of students and supporters from the four schools and residents in the neighbourhood, making it a festival-like event as they cheered their stars.Meanwhile, Ansar Ud-Deen's coach, Adeigbe Ibrahim, has expressed a huge shock at his team's inability to qualify for the final. According to Adeigbe, 'it is a sad thing that my team did not qualify for the final stage of the competition, because they had proved themselves since the inception of the competition.'Though the two teams, Ansar Ud-Deen College and Anwar-Ul Islam College, have been displaying fantastic skills since the inception of the tournament, it is certain that the better team would always win.'To make the last four, Ansar Ud-Deen, led by Lawal Mubarak, was at its best, with high display of talents, accurate passes and entertaining moves. Adeigbe, however, envisaged that the next edition of the competition would be tough after participating in the maiden edition and knowing the teams that would be playing.'For Ansar Ud-Deen team, next year will be a better outing because you learn from your mistakes, and we have learnt from our mistakes now,' he said. 'We will definitely prepare big time for the coming year.'We will play many preliminaries to make sure that our boys attain the standard we want to, so for us, it's like going back to the drawing board to restrategise.'King's College, Anwar-Ul Islam clash in Heritage Cup finalBy Tony NwanneCampos Mini Stadium in Lagos Island will today comes alive when King's College, Igbosere, and Anwar-Ul Islam College, Agege, slugged it out in the final of the maiden GTBank Heritage Cup.In its usual style of play, King's College beat rival St. Gregory's College, Obalende 4-3 in penalties in the semi-finals. Though St Gregory showed relentless effort, it eventually lost in penalties to King's College in a match that had initially tied at 3-3 in regulation time.Also, the semi-final game between Anwar-Ul Islam College and Ansar-Udeen College, Isolo, ended 8-1 in favour of Anwar-Ul Islam, with Felix Joseph as the most valuable player.The two matches were held at the Onikan Stadium, attracted large turnout of students and supporters from the four schools and residents in the neighbourhood, making it a festival-like event as they cheered their stars.However, Ansar Ud-Deen coach, Adeigbe Ibrahim, has expressed a huge shock following his team's inability to qualify for the final.According to Adeigbe, 'its indeed a sad thing my team not to have qualified to the final stage of the competition because, they deed proved themselves since the inception of the competition.He further stated that, 'Although, the two teams, Ansar Ud-Deen College and Anwar-Ul Islam College, since the inception of the tournament has been displaying fantastic skills, but its certain that the better team will always win', he noted.To make the last four, Ansar Ud-Deen players led by Lawal Mubarak, was at their best, with high display of talents, accurate passes, and good dexterity, at the same time entertaining the audience.Adeigbe, however, envisaged that the next edition of the competition would be tough after participating in the maiden edition and knowing the teams that will be playing.'For Ansar Ud-Deen team, next year will be a better outing for us because, you learn from your mistakes, and we have learnt from our mistakes now. We will definitely prepare big time for the coming one next year, we will played so many preliminaries to making sure that our boys attains the standard we wanted to, so for us, it's like going back to the drawing board and restrategise', he noted.
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