Senior Special Adviser to the President on Grassroots Sports Development, Adeboye Anthony Adeyinka has charged football fans in Ogun State to come out en masse and cheer Rangers International and El Kanemi Warriors to victory in their various CAF Competitions taking place in the state.
Nigeria champions, Rangers International of Enugu will on Sunday October, 18, 2026, meet MC
Alger of Algeria in a CAF Champions League second round preliminary match at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta, while El- Kanemi Warriors will on the same day meet Raja Club Athletic of Morocco for their second preliminary CAF Confederation match.
Speaking on the two games, Adeboye said that though the two teams are playing away from home but as Nigerians, they must be rallied round to ensure they get good results before playing their decisive return legs in North Africa next week.
” I want to appeal to football fans in Ogun State to come out in their numbers and cheer the two teams to victory. They’re carrying Nigerian flags to the continental competitions and a victory for them, is a victory to the whole country and that’s why it’s necessary they get all the desired support, encouragement and solidarity to post a good result”, he said.
Adeboye expressed confidence that the two teams are capable of posting good results against their North African opponents; saying that they have the quality to overcome and make the second legs a mere formality”, he concluded
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