Gbagada in high spirits ahead of NLO kickoff

Gbagada in high spirits ahead of NLO kickoff

Hassan Abdulsalam 21:31 - 02.05.2023

The Blue Eagles are drawn in Group A1 ahead of the season.

Ahead of the kickoff of the Nationwide League One (NLO), Gbagada Football Club is in high spirits to conquer the league.

Pulse Sports reports that the league will start on Wednesday, May 3rd, with the curtain raiser, a Kano Derby between Kano Pillars Jnr and Kwankwasiya FC at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano.

Gbagada targets NPFL

The founder and club chairman of Gbagada FC, Olajide Akinyelu, has revealed that the club's target is to play in Nigeria's elite league, the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

Olajide Akinyelu
Founder and club chairman of Gbagada FC, Olajide Akinyelu

The Blue Eagle has grown in the last seven years to become a standard community football club.

Gbagada Fc is drawn in Group A1 along with Tradesafe, Robo Fc, Synegy Ultimate Sports, Magic Stars, Iganmu FC, Broad City, Dannaz Fc, and Aliffey Fc.

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Akinyelu told PULSE SPORTS that the Creative Championship League has prepared the team for the league.

He said, "The spirit in camp is high, we can take each game one after the other. The TCC is a league we used to prepare for; we played those games week in and week out for the past six months, and that has made us ready for NLO.

"The goal is to play someday at the NPFL, but how soon to get is no one can tell because this is football."

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Over 400 teams and academics will battle for Nigeria's second-division league, the Nigeria National League (NNL), at the end of the season.

Pulse Sports reports that in the 2023 TCC Cup, Gbagada FC lost to Valiant FC in the final.

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