Evergreen All Stars players reactions after a successful a day tournament as Team B emerged champions

By Saheed Afolabi

Evergreen All Stars had their a day tournament where Team B emerged champions by defeating Team A. Though, both teams consist of the players from Evergreen All Stars as the a day tournament was used to wrap up the year 2022 in style.

Evergreen All Stars have proven to be one of the best All Stars adult team in Lagos because of how they coordinate their activities and also the numbers of professionals from different sectors of life that are part of the club.

Evergreen All Stars had a successful one day tournament where some players of the team reacted to how they love the club and why they are waxing stronger by the day.

Emeka Kingsley, Evergreen All Stars coach

“I’m impressed with the performance of both teams.

“We are just trying to encourage the adults and create awareness, we always go outside to play matches and God have been giving us victory.

“We were able to exhibit a lot of technique and we just have to keep training and improve more.”

Engr Rilwan Ogunshola Captain of Team A

“This is a game of football and it’s to promote love, peace and unity. As you can see this is our annual end of the year match, we lost but but I think we played well. I congratulate the team that won but it was a great fantastic game which wasn’t a one sided game.”

“Evergreen All Stars is one of the best All Stars team in Lagos mainland because we are disciplined, we have cohesion among one another and we look for one another on and off the pitch.”

Dayo Okunade (An Elder statesman), former president of Evergreen All Stars.

“Evergreen All Stars have evolved from one stage to another, as we are seeing now, the spirit that we have today didn’t start today, we have weathered so many storms and to the glory of God, we were able to sail through the stormy weather.

“What you are seeing here today is the collective efforts of everyone of us at Evergreen All Stars, we were going through some situations, we stood out ground, we maintained our position and bonded the love amidst us, we are so grateful to God.

Shola Popoola, Evergreen All Stars player

“Evergreen All Stars started like a child play, we just felt like men who work like us should not just die of memories of playing football at childhood so we decided to ignite the passion back and that’s what brought about Evergreen All Stars. As a matter of fact, a friend of mine won Heineken ball and just felt this ball will bring about alot of things and all this contributed to the growth of Evergreen All Stars.”

Taiye Towoju (T Money), Captain of Team B.

“We deserved the win, we played better, we won the match and we deserved the win.

“Everyone loves to be here every Saturday and it’s always fun.”