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ENUGU RANGERS’ COACH, OGUNBOTE DEDICATES AWARD TO PLAYERS AND FANS

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BY AKEEM BUSARI

It was a moment of reward for hard work for many awardees that included head coach of Enugu Rangers, Gbenga Ogunbote who won the Coach of the Year Award at the second edition of the Aiteo/NFF Awards held at the prestigious Eko Hotels and Suites, Lagos, Monday night.

Ogunbote led Enugu Rangers to win the Aiteo Cup last year after a pulsating final match against Kano Pillars. The club came back from 0-3 to level scores at 3-3 and won in the ensuing penalty shoot out.

The former 3SC handler who once led Sunshine Stars of Akure to the semi final of the CAF Champions League, was in charge of the flying antelopes, as the team failed to progress beyond the group stages of the CAF Confederation Cup.

Responding after receiving the award, Ogunbote also called ‘Oracle’ by his admirers expressed his gratitude to God for the recognition.

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Speaking further, the smooth talking coach was effusive in praises for the management and teeming fans of the team for their encouragement and support.

“I thank God for this award. I also want to say a big thank you to the organizers of this award”, he remarked.

“And to the management of the team and of course, our teeming fans, I say this award is for you. This award would only spur me to doing better things for the club,” he added graciously.

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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