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  • MID-SEASON TRANSFER ALERT: 3SC to offload misfiring strikers

    MID-SEASON TRANSFER ALERT: 3SC to offload misfiring strikers

    Shooting Stars’ head coach, Fatai Folorunsho Amoo has said that he has informed his strikers that they have few matches more to justify their inclusion in the team or he looks elsewhere to find solution to the Oluyole Warriors lack of goals in the ongoing premier league season.

    The Ibadan side have not got an average of a goal per match in the current campaign with the side having scored 10 goals and conceding 12.  Amoo told SportingLife that he has become frustrated with his strikers’ inaction in front of goal and may have to allow them leave to get capable replacements.

    Amoo noted that the Oluyole Warriors had every opportunity to wrap up their last away game in Gombe with a win but for their profligacy in the goal area of the Desert Scorpions before they managed to get their acts together in the dying minute to get the equaliser through Nonso Mbakwe.

    “We must do something about our lack of goals. We always create goal scoring opportunities but we don’t convert them. I will be forced to go in search of goals scorers if the current strikers I have with me can’t get the job done,” Amoo told SportingLife.

     

  • ‘3SC performed at Enyimba’

    ‘3SC performed at Enyimba’

    Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) head coach, Fatai Amoo has said his wards performed creditable well at former champions, Enyimba.

    The Oluyole Warriors forced the People’s Elephant to 0-0 draw in Wednesday’s top-flight matchday 11 clash at adopted ground, UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar.

    Amoo said the heart-warming goalless will greatly help his side to forge ahead in the ongoing top flight.

    “For us to play Enyimba on home ground to a goalless draw with short one is a huge achievement irrespective of how other people see the result.

    “I have taken the outcome in good fate and joyously, too with the barren draw.

    “The result is good for 3SC, the fans, supporters as well as the management.

    “We must build on the result in our subsequent matches, we will avoid to be carried away else we will be punished especially as we are playing a good side, Plateau United in the next match.

    “Enyimba will always remain a good side given the array and quality of players in its fold so they too played well but I say kudos to my wards for standing their ground.

    “I featured about four players that have never played in the top-flight and they proved their worth.

    “Right now we have competition in the team and the entire team will be the biggest gainer.

    “My players actually performed against Enyimba I just pray they sustain the momentum in other matches,” said the former Sunshine Stars coach to supersport.com.

    The draw at Enyimba adds the Ibadan landlords’ total earnings to 10 from possible 33 in the 11-week old top-flight with a game at hand against champions, Enugu Rangers.

  • 3SC bank on tradition at Katsina

    3SC bank on tradition at Katsina

    Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) goalkeeper, Michael Uweru has said his side will bank on their status quo as a tradition team to edge top-flight newcomers, Katsina United.

    The Oluyole Warriors are guests of the Katsina outfit in Sunday’s Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) matchday 9 clash at the Katsina Township Stadium.

    Uweru said though the top-flights have proven themselves as no pushovers his side will fight hard to avoid defeat in the encounter.

    “Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) have always been a traditional side in the domestic scene; the influence and weight are what we will take to Katsina United.

    “Although, Katsina United are newcomers in the Premier league we have come to believe that none of the 20 teams is a pushover.

    “Every team in the top-flight including Katsina United rightly deserves its due place and ought to be respected.

    “We will accord the hosts, Katsina United its rightful place but our target is the three points at stake or worst case scenario a point.

    “We have vowed to avoid defeat in the encounter as it will further compound our uncomfortable position on the log.

    “The matchup is certain to be difficult  but we are ready and have actually placed ourselves for the banters the hosts will throw at us,” said the former Kwara United shot stopper to supersport.com.

    The Ibadan landlords are 17th on the 20-team top-flight on seven points 10 behind league leaders, Plateau United.

  • Mid-week games are killing us- Uwau cries out

    Mid-week games are killing us- Uwau cries out

    Lobi Stars technical adviser, Godwin Koko Uwua has told SportingLife that the mid-week matches are not good for the Nigeria football.

    The former Enyimba FC of Aba manager said the organizers of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) should have considered so many things before fixing mid-week matches.

    Uwua complained of fatigue as the players are not finding it easy with frequent travels to play league games within few days on bad roads.

    The Makurdi-based outfit suffered a 4-0 defeat to MFM in the match day 3 game in Lagos on Sunday before returning to Makurdi to thrash ABS 3-0 in the match day 4 on Wednesday.

    “We thank God that we won our match against ABS. But I must tell you that the long journey is really affecting how we play our games. Mid-week football is not good for us and not everything you see that you copy. You have to understand that our roads are bad. And we have to travel for league game within three days interval, it is not good at all,” the former Niger Tornadoes coach said to SportingLife.

    Uwua, who helped a South Africa club, Free State Stars gain promotion to the Premier Soccer League in 2007, said any journey that is more than three hours is usually by air in South Africa.

    “In South Africa, any journey that is more than three hours is by air. In England, which they are taking after too travel by air for any match that is more three hours because of jet lag.  We traveled about 12 hours to Ibadan for 3SC game on Sunday and it really affected my team’s performance, and we had to travel to Markurdi the following day to play against Kano Pillars on Wednesday. The following morning, we were on the road for another 13 hours journey to Lagos for MFM game. It is not easy and not good for our football. The distance covered is not favourable. We are doing something we don’t understand. Tomorrow (Friday) we will be on the road again to Port-Harcourt to play against Rivers United on Sunday. For how long are we going to continue with this?,” Uwua lamented.

  • Gbolagade Busari is 3SC’s new executive chairman

    Gbolagade Busari is 3SC’s new executive chairman

    Former sports journalist Gbolagade Busari has been appointed executive chairman of NPFL side Shooting Stars.

    He was formerly a sports correspondent with Sketch press, before sojourning in USA.

    He returned to Nigeria and was appointed the Special Adviser to Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi during his first term in office.

    Busari is a football lover and passionate supporter of Shooting Stars.

    He is now expected to bring his passion to bear on The Oluyole Warriors amid the huge indebtedness of the government to the club.

  • Sunshine Stars, 3SC hold reconciliation meeting Sunday

    Sunshine Stars, 3SC hold reconciliation meeting Sunday

    The stage is set for  a land mark step that will bring to an end the bitter rivalry that has existed between Sunshine Stars Football Club of Akure and Shooting Stars Sports Club of Ibadan (3SC) as both sides will meet on Sunday in Lagos.

    The step to settle and bring to an end all the problems between the two teams from the South West is a peace meeting under the Chairmanship of the 1st Vice President of the Nigeria Football Federation,  Seyi Akinwunmi.

    The peace meeting will hold at NAPTIN Suites, 67, Adelabu Street, Surulere (close to NEPA Quarters and Masha Roundabout), Lagos tomorrow at 9.30 am.

    Expected at the meeting are all South West Football Association chairmen, the NFF,  LMC, officials of the two teams, football associations of both states (Ondo and Oyo), representatives of the Supporters Clubs of both teams among others.

  • 3sc’s Ibrahim mourns Izu Joseph

    3sc’s Ibrahim mourns Izu Joseph

    3SC’s Ajani Ibrahim has rued the death of the Oluyole Warriors’ defender, Izu Joseph who was reportedly killed in his home town while on holiday at the end of the 2015/2016 NPFL season.

    Izu died on his way to the hospital and Ibrahim who disclosed that he was very close to the former Bayelsa United player, said the Ibadan side have lost a rare gem that worked very hard to ensure that the Oluyole Warriors avoided relegation.

    “I was pained when I heard about the death of Izu. It was a sad end to a fine footballer who has several years ahead of him,” said Ibrahim.

    “He was a good player and was part of the players that ensured that we were not relegated. I pray that God should give his family the fortitude to bear the loss and I will also like the police to fish out whoever is behind the killing.”

  • 3SC will improve with more quality, says Olabisi

    3SC will improve with more quality, says Olabisi

    Shooting Stars’ Olabisi Samuel has said the team will look back at their performance with pride as they focus on next season.

    “Generally, we have had a good time with the club. From a relegation position to a safe spot, it has been a great improvement and we need to build on this to do even better next year.

    “I am happy to have settled well since coming here for another stint. I feel really welcome and it has helped me to do well,” Olabisi told Goal.

    The former FC Taraba defender believes the team will get better if brilliant players can beef up their ranks. With addition of more quality players the team will improve and bring glory to the soccer loving Shooting Stars’ fans,” he said. You win laurels with good personnel and that’s the way things are done in every part of the world. I’m appealing to supporters of the team (Shooting Stars) to exercise patience as the club will return to its glory days.”

  • 3SC may miss Warri Wolves clash

    3SC may miss Warri Wolves clash

    Shooting Stars coach, Gbenga Ogunbote has said officials are still begging the players, who embarked on a pay strike this week, to agree to travel for today’s NPFL clash at Warri Wolves.

    “As I speak to you, the boys have refused to travel for the match. We were meant to travel today, but it seems we can no longer do so. If the issue is not resolved before the end of the day, we will hope to travel first thing tomorrow morning,” disclosed Ogunbote.

    The players have boycotted training this week so as to press for the payment of their outstanding salaries as well as to sight the contracts they signed with the club.

    They have not been paid five months’ salaries as well as 10 match bonuses so far.

    It is believed the management are scrambling for some cash to pay the players.

    Shooting Stars are 14th on the table with 44 points.

    After the Warri Wolves game this weekend, they have a home game against Wikki before they finish the season away at relegation-threatened Abia Warriors.

  • Warri Wolves’ Mansur wary of 3SC

    Warri Wolves’ Mansur wary of 3SC

    Warri Wolves head coach Mansur Abdullahi knows that his side will have to be perfect in their match day 36 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) battle on Sunday.

    The Seasiders will take on the Ibadan giants at the Warri City Stadium in the next round of the NPFL as they attempt to beat the drop.

    “Shooting Stars are one of the biggest sides in the country. After a period of crisis, they are rediscovering their form thanks to coach Gbenga Ogunbote,” Mansur told Goal.

    “They beat Rangers in their last game, a side who are in the race for the title, so that must mean something. If we want to survive then we’ll have to be perfect against Shooting Stars.”

    Wolves are still battling relegation with three games to play, as they currently sit in 16th spot, one point above the drop zone.