2nd Victor Ikpeba Football Challenge In semifinals

OBAFEMI TIMILEHIN ENOCH

The second edition of the Victor Ikpeba Football Challenge Warri 2022 has reached the semifinals stage at the Army Day Secondary School, Effurum, Warri venue of competition.

The first semifinal of the competition will be played between Lord Mark Fc versus Sporting Fc.

Lord Mark Fc defeated FC Planners 2-0 in the quarter finals to book a place in the semis, while Sporting FC outwitted Delta Rovers 1-0.

The Lord Mark FC versus Sporting FC semifinal game will be played at 10am at the Army Day Secondary School Effurum, Warri venue.

The second semifinal would see Justice FC slug it out against Champions Cathedral FC at 10.45am.

To get to the semifinal, Justice Fc defeated Fc Ichofe 4-3 via penalty shootout, after playing a goalless draw at the end of regulation time.

White Champions Cathedral had to put up their best performance to scale through to the semifinal in a quarter finals cracker against FC Galaxy 3-2 after playing a 1-1 draw at end of regulation time. The match saw the spectators at the Army Day Secondary School, Effurum at the edge of their seats because of the complete attacking play from the two teams.

FC Galaxy opened scoring in the quarter finals cracker leading 1-0 after a brilliant performance. The Champions Cathedral leveled scores at 1-1 in the 24th minute of play, taking the very interesting game into penalty shootout.

The Champions Cathedral FC emerged victorious in the ensuing penalty shootout winning 3-2 to get into Friday’s Semi Final.

After the semifinal’s games, the Third-Place match will be played between the two semifinal losers at 1pm.

After the Third-Place match, there will be a Legend Novelty game featuring a team captained by the tournament’s sponsor and 1997 African Footballer of the Year, Victor Ikpeba and other former national team players against Chevron All Stars team, Warri, at 2pm.

The grand finale of the 2nd Victor Ikpeba Football Challenge Warri 2022 holds at 3pm.

The eventual champions will go home with a cash prize of N150,000. The second placed team will get a cash prize of N100,000, while the Third placed team gets N70,000 and fourth placed team N50,000.

Four individual awards will be presented to outstanding players in the competition: The Most Valuable Player award, Best Defender award, Highest Goal Scorer award and the Best Midfielder award.

The top three teams will be presented with trophies and medals.