The refurbished Legacy Pitch at the National Stadium in Surulere in Lagos will be a beehive of activities on Sunday, 30th April as over 100 players go on the turf to play a novelty match in honour of Chief Adewale Teluwo, the proprietor of the defunct VIP Professionals (Teluwo Babes) -a team in the domestic national league in the 1990s.
The match put together by a group of ex-internationals, known as Teluwo Soccer Ambassadors, is being coordinated by Anthony Olayinka Ajiboye, the Special Adviser to governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sports.
Spokesmen of the group, Victor Ehime Eghodosa, said a giant trophy will be presented for an annual competition among leading Clubs in Lagos to appreciate the efforts made by Chief Adewale Teluwo in promoting football from the grassroots level in the country over the last four decades.
It promises to be spectacle when the likes of Taribo West, now a pastor, Godwin Okpara, Golden Ajeboh, Festus Odini, Hakeem Ogunlade, Taiwo Enegwa, Sunday Ilevbare, Koya Dosunmu, Bala Garba, Victor Eghodosa, Joseph Eberefe, Segun Fetuga, Lookman Olugbode, Wilson Aki , Tobi Cottrel among others trade tackles against former players of Stationery Stores F.C. of Lagos.
The match is slated for 3.p.m.
An excited Teluwo said: “I am really excited. The boys are now men and they are all wonderful. This planning has been on for over a year and now, we give God the glory.”