Soccer action resume on Monday in the ongoing Football for Hope Festival 2010 kicking off in Alexandra, South Afric as Ngeria's will file out against Team USA and Football United from Australia.
In its first group matches, Nigeria's representative in the fought from behind to secure maximum points on the opening day of proceedings at the “Football for Hope” Festival 2010.
The team lost possession deep in the half of their opponent and a counter attack resulted in the lone goal for the team from Southern Africa.
Trailing one-nil and with less than three minutes to play, substitute Emmanuel Egege came from the bench to level score after a solo run beating four players on the way.
The capacity crowd at the specially constructed street soccer stadium with artificial turf went wild with excitement after Kehinde Akinwande hit the roof of the net with a minute to spare to end score at 2 – 1 in favour of Nigeria.
Goalkeeper Ebenezer Aderemi had started the build up from the rear and Egege Emmanuel shrugged off two opponents, with only the goalkeeper to beat, he chose to pass on the ball to Kehinde Akinwande and she hit a rising shot for a spectacular goal.
With this result, Nigeria made three points from the game and another one point for fairplay on the pitch.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter alongside South African President Jacob Zuma was at Alexandria to declare the Festival open.
In its first group matches, Nigeria's representative in the fought from behind to secure maximum points on the opening day of proceedings at the “Football for Hope” Festival 2010.
The team lost possession deep in the half of their opponent and a counter attack resulted in the lone goal for the team from Southern Africa.
Trailing one-nil and with less than three minutes to play, substitute Emmanuel Egege came from the bench to level score after a solo run beating four players on the way.
The capacity crowd at the specially constructed street soccer stadium with artificial turf went wild with excitement after Kehinde Akinwande hit the roof of the net with a minute to spare to end score at 2 – 1 in favour of Nigeria.
Goalkeeper Ebenezer Aderemi had started the build up from the rear and Egege Emmanuel shrugged off two opponents, with only the goalkeeper to beat, he chose to pass on the ball to Kehinde Akinwande and she hit a rising shot for a spectacular goal.
With this result, Nigeria made three points from the game and another one point for fairplay on the pitch.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter alongside South African President Jacob Zuma was at Alexandria to declare the Festival open.
Suliat Yusuf, captain of the Nigerian team was amongst the selected 32 youths that helped out in adding colour to the opening ceremony.
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