Team Lagos Confront Kastina As Football event Kick-off Today.

The Team Lagos football team will on Monday  begin their search for the elusive soccer gold medal when they take on the Kastina state counterpart at Onikan Stadium, Lagos by 4:00pm.

The 18^th National Sports Festival will officially begin with the opening ceremony tomorrow while the football event starts today with Adamawa state battling Plateau in the group A for the first match of the day, by 8:00am.

While Delta State confront Abia state in the second match of the day by 10:00am, after which Eko football team will play the last match of the day in group A against Kastina State.

In the Women’s category holding at the Agege Stadium, Adamawa State will confront Ogun State in the first match in group A by 8:00am, it will be the turn of Edo and Imo State by 12 noon, with Team Lagos playing Kaduna in the last match of the day.

Speaking after the draws, conducted by  Sola Ogunnowo of the Nigeria football federation at the NFF Liaison office at Ogunlana Drive, Surulere, Lagos, on Sunday, Dotun Coker, board member of the Lagos State Football Association said the state was ready for any opposition.

“We have prepared adequately for this event, so we are ready for any team, we plan is to win the two gold medals available for this event and we must win, we must be ready to play any team, to be a champion you have to be the best and this what we are working towards”, Coker who heads the Technical committee of the LSFA stated.

However, Frank Ilaboya, vice chairman of Edo State FA was also talking tough, saying they are in Lagos to pick the women’s gold medal, “By the grace of God we shall picked the women’s gold medal for the sports loving people of Edo State”. He said.