*Feeders Star promoted
By Okhide Em’ya David
Bendel insurance Football Club players and officials, on Monday morning resumed work as they trained at the Crescent Club Football Field at Iriri-Ogba in Benin City.
The Benin ‘Arsenal’ proceeded on Christmas holiday on December 23, 2021 and has returned to the field to intensify preparations for on-coming Nigeria’s second tier football season scheduled to kick off on January 16.
Technical Manager and coach of the Club Mr. Bernard Ogbe, at the training session, told Journalists that they were excited to be back to work after the Christmas and New Year break.
Coach Ogbe said: “I am happy with players’ response, also happy to be back to work and I appreciate my players’ response. We want to seriously prepare for the upcoming football season after long absence of League games”
He said they hope to kickoff league action on January 16 as scheduled by NNL and the Federal Ministry of sports.
Meanwhile, the coaching crew of Bendel Insurance FC has promoted outstanding Insurance Feeders team’s Efe Ugiagbe to the main team for the oncoming football season.
Efe Aghama, popularly called Joker scored the winning goal for Insurance Feeders to win the National Under 17 football championship tagged, ‘Stephen Keshi Football Championship on December 5, 2020.
He has been very impressive on the field since the coaching crew of Bernard Ogbe took over that club in early 2019 LaLiga Under 15 and when he graduated to U-17 where he scored the winning goal against a highly tactical Flight FC of Benue State.
The Secretary of the club Charles Ihimekpen, while welcoming the players and officials back to work, announced that the club had fixed weekend for new year party for the team.
