Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Easter football clubhas been crowned champions of the South Sudan cup for the Year 2020-2021 in YeiRiver County of Central Equatoria state. Speaking duringthe ceremony of handing the cup to the champions, JustineLokonga Moses, president of Yei Local Football Association urged the leadershipof SSFA for continuous visit to strengthen relationship and improve football inthe country.
He encouraged the SSFA delegation to always visit the associations tosee their challenges and progress as supervision for growth of sports in thecounties.
“I want to welcome the SSFA delegation headed by Charles Udwar for thevisit to Yei. I want to urge that it should not be the first and last, but itshould continue even without major events like cup finals. Without you wecannot do anything that can raise sports up in the counties. I also want to urgeyour office for cooperation between Yei and Juba local football associationsand South Sudan football association,” requested Justin.
President of Juba local football association John Lodu also encouragedthe people of Yei to continue with the spirit of football. He said most of the players in Juba went from Yei and he described thetown as a centre of sports.
“People of Yei continue with the spirit of football. Yei is a centre forsports in South Sudan, if you look at most of the players playing for the teamsin Juba are from Yei and for that reason, Yei is a feeder of Juba localfootball association,” testified Lodu.
South Sudan football association’s vice president Charles Udwar revealedthat the association’s leadership has decided to attend all the final games inthe country to interact with the people in the ground.
Udwar added that their visit to the associations would enable them toidentify some of the challenges facing the associations and find ways ofaddressing them.
He thanked people of Yei and the local football association for bringingup majority of national women players. Udwar assured south Sudanese toimprove the level of football in the country for the next three years.
“We have chosen to attend all the finals across the country to interactwith our people in the ground and witness their challenges because at the endof the Year we shall be working on the 2022/2023 plan.That is why we say it’sgood to attend the final.so we are happy to be in Yei and looking forward to attendingthe opening of the South Sudan women cup,” explained the SSFA vice president.
Easter football club were crowned champions of the tournament for theYear 2021/2022 after 7-6 penalty shootouts with Black4 asthe two sides drew after the full time. It was the first time for both Easter and Black4 reaching the finals ofthe South Sudan cup where twenty-five teams participated in the competition.
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