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AGEGE STADIUM’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL MATCH GOAL LIFTS MFM TO CAF LEAGUE ROUND 1

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MFM FC who overcame gritty AS Real Bamako 1-0 on Wednesday to advance from the preliminary round of the CAF Champions League into the Round 1 have a mountain to climb as they face Algeria’s Mouloudia Club d’Alger next month.

The apparent free-scoring Mouloudia Club d’Alger pummelled Congo’s AS Otoho 9-0 on Wednesday to advance on 9-2 aggregate score line. The Algerians as Mouloudia Chaàbia d’Alger in 1976 eliminated Nigeria’s Enugu Rangers on their way to winning their only title in CAF’s premier inter-clubs competition.

MFM in the first ever international match at the Agege Stadium advanced into the Round 1 on a 2-1 aggregate as Akuneto Chijoke enters the record books as the first scorer of a goal in an international match on a ground MFM FC has nicknamed ‘The Temple”.

The goal came five minutes to the regulation time as Akuneto connected a right flank cross from substitute player, Abayomi Lawal.

 

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Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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