Nasarawa United FC secured a hard-fought 3-1 win over its Feeder Staff in an in-house pleasant match held on the Lafia Metropolis Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.
The match was designed to additional strengthen the groups because the 2025/26 Nigeria Premier Soccer Leagues proceed.
Nasarawa United’s dedication and abilities had been on full show as they battled in opposition to their Youth Staff counterparts.
The tense match manifested some eye-catching moments, with each groups creating scoring alternatives.
Collins Onovuke opened scoring for the Stable Miners within the fortieth minute of the first-half, earlier than second-half substitute, Adah Umar, elevated the tally to 2-0, within the fiftieth minute.
Barnabas Elias, awestruck their senior counterparts with a ravishing end to scale back the deficit to 2-1 within the 68th minute.
John Joshua, nonetheless, introduced issues to relaxation, capitalizing on a goalkeeping error within the 72nd minute to present the senior group a 3-1 win.
The outcome comes as a lift to the Stable Miners who’re getting ready for his or her NPFL match-day 5 tie in opposition to Bayelsa United in Yenagoa, this weekend.
Addressing the groups, Commissioner for Youth and Sports activities Improvement, Nasarawa State, Hon. Kwanta Yakubu, mentioned he was impressed with the efficiency of each groups, significantly the Youth Staff.
He expressed optimism that the Nasarawa United Feeder Staff, shaped some few months in the past, would trigger main upsets within the nearest future, each in Nigeria and past, contemplating the standard of skills embedded in it.
The Commissioner mentioned Governor Sule accepted the formation of the Feeder Staff with a mandate to unearth hidden potentials to transition high quality gamers into the primary group and for export functions.
The Commissioner urged members of each groups to work in synergy to attain the needs of the arrange.
Chairman of Nasarawa United FC, Solomon Babanjah, and Lead of the Feeder Staff, Andrew Kuwanta, each counseled each groups for his or her sportsmanship and dedication, emphasizing the significance of such in-house pleasant matches in creating the groups total efficiency, disclosing that the way forward for Nasarawa United is assured by the standard and calibre of gamers within the youth group.
Earlier, Technical Adviser of Nasarawa United, Mangut Mbwas, expressed satisfaction with the match, highlighting the significance of such pleasant video games in fine-tuning the groups’ methods and constructing cohesion amongst gamers, stressing that the Feeder Staff gamers confirmed they’re in the best place to rapidly transition into the primary group, saving prices for the Authorities and inspiring sports activities improvement within the State.
Coach Balarabe Ibrahim of the Feeder Staff mentioned the match was a invaluable studying expertise because it helped them achieve publicity to the senior group’s taking part in model and ways.
Recall that the NPFL Board, in a not too long ago launched doc, listed seven gamers scouted and invited from Nasarawa United Feeder Staff from the NPFL U-19 Youth Championship held in Kano not too long ago for the subsequent part of the competitors.
The scouted gamers embrace, Mohammed Abdullahi, Emmanuel Vincent Shina, Moses Agbo, Umar Abubakar, Moses Sule, Nazif Yunusa Abdullahi, and Mohammed Iliyasu.
They’re anticipated to affix their counterparts from different Premier League and non Premier League golf equipment for a closed tenting train slated from 4th-Seventeenth October, 2025, in both Abuja or Ogun State.
