Normal Supervisor, Digital and Publications, The PUNCH, Ademola Oni, has despatched a word of warning to the Media Amalgamated staff that The PUNCHERS will undertake the Africa Cup of Nations winners, Ivory Coast, successful mentality when either side conflict through the novelty match.
As a part of celebrations of the Fiftieth anniversary of The PUNCH, Nigeria’s most-read newspaper, a novelty match has been organized between The PUNCHERS and Media Amalgamated, a choose group of journalists from Tribune, Nation, Vanguard, ThisDay, Management, Telegraph and The Guardian newspapers.
The match can be held on the Mobolaji Johnson Area, Onikan, Lagos on February 24.
The extremely anticipated and doubtlessly explosive novelty match marks the graduation of an array of epoch-making actions for the Fiftieth-anniversary celebration of Nigeria’s most-read newspaper.
The PUNCHERS had their third coaching session on Saturday at their adopted residence floor, Mountain Prime College, alongside the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Magboro, Ogun State.
Having labored on their successful methods on Friday, AFCON 1992 bronze medallist, Friday Ekpo, on Saturday ensured that his aspect had been mentally ready for essentially the most talked about novelty match.
Ever current on the coaching session, Oni whereas addressing the staff after the coaching motivated his wards to enter the match adopting AFCON winners mentality.
“Like Ekpo stated, our focus is on the novelty sport which can open the gate to our four-day exhibition, our lecture, our dinner and our social gathering on the head workplace, so we can not enable anyone to spoil this enjoyable for us.
“We need to play like Ivory Coast, we are going to rush them and earlier than they realise what’s occurring we might have overrun them. However it’s not my mouth, it requires dedication and one vital ingredient which is self-discipline. The coach has an outline of the pitch and is aware of what’s happening, we should obey each instruction handed throughout to us.
“It’s a novelty sport and the coach will give everybody a possibility to play however we can not afford to lose and that’s the reason we are going to go into the sport with Ivory Coast’s mentality. They had been decided to win the AFCON they usually confirmed it on the pitch they usually gained.”
The PUNCHERS may have their fourth coaching on Wednesday as they put the ending touches to their preparations for the novelty sport towards Media Amalgamated.
In the meantime, the Media Amalgamated staff, below the supervision of former Tremendous Eagles ahead and bronze medallist on the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, Victor Agali, had their first coaching session on Saturday on the Legacy Pitch of the Nationwide Stadium, Lagos.
