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ROUND UP OF GAMES IN THE NIGERIA EX-INTERNATIONALS CUP 2024: LAGOS CHAPTER

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The maiden edition of Lagos State Chapter of the Nigeria Ex-Internationals Cup, organised by Lagos State Football Association, has continued to evoke fond and exciting memories of the playing days of the ex-Nigeria international players participating in this tournament as Coach-Mentor to their adopted teams. It has been a thoroughly exciting, tough and rough journey so far, as teams had to play some games on sandy, bumpy and uneven grounds in the different communities playgrounds across the state, as they moved towards the promised land. The matches in the rounds of 32 and rounds of 16, threw up interesting encounters, just as we recall how former Super Eagles and West Bromwich Albion defender Ifeanyi Udeze, squared up against the legendary former Nigeria left winger Friday Elahor in the rounds of 32. And dubbed as a match between defender against attacker, it was Udeze's team that came out tops. Another cracker was between the teams adopted by Olympic medallist Joseph Dosu and for