All is now set for the Aniocha North 2021 Avatar Football Unity Cup competition being sponsored by the Avatar Foundation.
The tournament which is geared towards uniting the people of Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, developmentally, through football, is going to be the biggest football event in the history of the Local Government area.
The seventeen Communities in the Area have been fully mobilized to actively participate in the football fiesta through their various Community football Clubs.
Hon. Chuks Oseme, the immediate past Chairman of Aniocha North Local Government and Founder Avatar Foundation, in a Chat with cshowcasenews.com, confirmed that the tournament is billed to kick off on Friday, December 10, 2021 and will run for a period of three weeks, with the grand finale on Sunday January 2, 2022.
The former council boss disclosed that Ogbeutu Primary School in Issele-Uku, the administrative headquarter of Aniocha North Local Government area, has been scheduled for the kick-off of the competition while four other centres across the Local Government area, have been selected for the preliminary round of matches for the tournament.
According to the sponsor of the tournament, the centres have been group with Issele-uku centre as Group A and have Issele-Uku, Onicha-Ugbo, Issele-Azagba and Obior while Group B with Idumuje-Unor as centre has Idumuje-Unor, Idumuje-Ugboko, Ukwu-Nzu and Onicha-Uku.
Group C has Onicha-Olona as Centre with Onicha-Olona, Ezi, Issele-Mkpitime and idumu-ogo and Group D with Obomkpa as Centre has Obomkpa, Ugboba, Ugbodu and Ubulubu/Ogodor
Hon. Oseme said that playing the match preliminaries at the four selected centres will afford all the participating communities proximity, even as he clarified that the tournament is not partisan by any means, but purely an Aniocha North affair geared towards celebrating Christmas and the New Year in an atmosphere of conviviality and fun.
“It is a way to galvanize the Youths this Season to at least boost their activities. Aniocha North is a well diversified Local Government area. We have about seventeen communities that are quite independent on their own, but somehow, even despite our heterogeneous nature, we are also still very homogeneous in the sense that we move from one community to the other without even noticing any boundaries. We bond together.
“So this football tournament will help to bring us together once more, even though it is going to be competitive. It is going to be all fun. It is geared towards promoting brotherliness and unity among the various communities.
“The competition is also going to serve as an opportunity to fish out talents especially in football. You know football globally is a big business.
“If from the competition, one or two persons are fished out and they go professional, that will be a very good one. Above all, it will encourage us to know ourselves as members of the same Local Government area, it will give us all the fun especially to commemorate this precious season”, Hon. Oseme stated.
Even when he declined politely to disclose the cost implication of organizing such a complex football competition, Hon. Chuks Oseme revealed that his foundation will be providing complete football kits which include sets of Jerseys for all the participating communities, through their community Football Clubs, free of charge.
The Former Council Chairman noted that indeed, organizing such a football event is capital intensive, but for him, the tournament is being done basically on humanitarian grounds, saying that it is all geared towards mobilizing the people of Aniocha North for the Unity and progress of the Local Government area.
While confirming that very important dignitaries within and outside the Local Government area have been invited for the Sporting event, the Founder of Avatar Foundation, Hon. Chuks Oseme revealed that the Executive Chairman of Aniocha North Local Government, Hon. Kevin Okwechime will officially kick-off the Football competition, billed to commence by 4pm on Friday this week.
