The Heineken Lokpobiri football tournament will now hold on January 30 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, according to the chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC), Coach Meinkeme Fekete.
He said the tournament, earlier scheduled for November, was pushed forward by circumstances beyond the organisers’ control.
The tournament is a grassroots football competition aimed at fishing out hidden talents in the 60 villages in Bayelsa State.
According to the LOC chairman, 25 players would be picked after the tournament to play two friendly matches against the Flying Eagles of Nigeria and the Cameroon U-20 team in Cameroon in honour of Nigeria former international, Jossy Dombraye, the first player to score a goal at the Ayije Stadium, Cameroon, where the people built his statue.
Coach Fekete, who took Bayelsa United to win the Nigeria Premier League and reached the semifinal in CAF Cup, said the Lokpobiri tournament is the first of its kind in the state.
