2020 Edo: Team FCT Here To Defend Title In Football Event - Noah Omede

  2020 Edo: Team FCT Here To Defend Title In Football Event - Noah Omede By Omolagba Oluwayemi Confidently speaking after the draws for the Football event of the Edo 2020 Sports Festival, secretary of FCT male football team has assured their fans that the team is well poised to repeat the feat it achieved in 2018 when FCT hosted the Sports Festival, BSNSports.com.ng reports. In his interview with the press, Noah said; "The expectation is high, our first game is against the host team Edo State. We've prepared very well from Abuja and despite the fact that they are the host State, we're ready to show them, we're going to beat them on their ground here to qualify for the semi-final." "As the defending champions, we've heard a lot that we're not going to scale through this time around but we know the product we came with. We played enough friendlies in Abuja against league teams which will beat and the same way we're going to deal with them here in Edo State. We are going back to with to Abuja with the gold," he added. When asked about some of the challenges encounter by the team during the preparation for the festival, he gave none specifically except the late preparation which he said has nothing to do with what they'll achieve in Edo State. "Our challenges before getting to Edo State was that we did not start preparation early but the two weeks preparations we had was okay for us to repeat what we did 2018 in Abuja. "The stop play and postponement approach will not affect us just that one of our players have just joined Jigawa Golden Stars, Emmanuel Nwabofor presently the goal keeper of Jigawa Golden Stars. He was picked from the 2018 tournament and we thank God for that and we are hoping some of our players will be picked from this event as well. He also said players playing professional football are not allowed to take part in the festival except those from amateur leagues. Host Edo, defending champions FCT and Borno are in the same group while the other group has team Lagos, Delta and Imo. Two teams will qualify from each group to the semi-finals. The Football events is between 7th of April to 12th of April, 2021.