The maiden edition of Stephen Odey’s Cup took centre stage yesterday in Lagos at the Dairy Farm Secondary School Agege.
In his bid to give back to the society, former MFM FC striker Stephen Odey, organised a football tournament tagged Stephen Odey’s Cup.
About 16 schools, including Boys and Girls from Junior and Senior Secondary Schools from the Lagos State Education District One, Agege, participated in the event with over N1million cash prize for the teams.
Dairy Farm Senior Secondary School emerged winner of the Senior Boys category after a 2-0 win over Oke Odo Senior Grammar School and were reward with N300,000 cash prize.
Orile Agege Community Junior High beat Oke Odo Junior Secondary School 2-1 in the final of the Junior Boys category and were presented a cash prize N150,000.
In the Girls event, Ijaiye Housing Estate Senior Grammar School emerged winner following a 1-0 victory over Olorunfemi Senior Grammar School, while Egan Junior Grammar School defeated Estate Junior High School 1-0 and were crowned champions of the Junior Girls cadet
The winners of the Girls event were rewarded with N300,000 and N150,000 respectively.
The Randers FC of Denmark forward, disclosed during interviews sessions at the final of the championship played at the secondary school where he graduated, Dairy Farm Secondary School, Agege, that the plan was to make the competition bigger in the coming years while he would continue to give back to his society.
“This is a district cup; it’s for schools, and you could recollect that my own football started from the Principal’s Cup; that’s where I was discovered; that’s what I am doing so we can have people realizing their dreams the same way I did.
“It really felt good because this is where everything started for me as a player, and I am really happy that I am here to do the little I can to help the boys and girls.
“Playing inside this school (Dairy Farm) was where I learnt the confidence that helped me get to where I am today without this community, nobody would have heard of Stephen Odey.
“This is the first edition and I’m really happy with how things turned out. With the little success we achieved with this one I believe the second edition would be bigger and better,” he concluded.
