Traditional winners Kano Pillars fc emerged Champions of this year’s FA cup otherwise known as Challenge Cup
Pillars who have been lifting the trophy since when they were formed in 1990 unless on one occasion over the decades when they were trounced by defunct Dantata United, thrashed Pro Line by alone goal before their fanatical supporters at Dani Abacha Stadium Kofar Mata.
The team which won’ the event at the national level once, will now prepare for the competition proper as early as when fixtures of preliminary rounds were made known by NFF.
FA Cup
The F A cup without minding word the oldest football competition in the country, is an event that Pillars gave a good account of themselves since their establishment.
The club, despite emerging winners as early as 2018,when they defeated Niger Tornadoes in Kaduna, they qualified for quarter final and semis on several occasions especially when players like late Nura Rasha, Yusuf Akuya, Biiodun Baruwa ,Clifford Cassidy, Nasir Jibril, Adidas, Many Garba, Abubakar Balarabe, Victor Obinwe Aminu Oduah among others were with the team.
Responding on the achievement, Chairman of the club Babangida Little, reiterated their resolve to bring the giant trophy to the pyramid city thanking the Government for logistics and financial backing, players for their sacrifice and dedication and the coaching crew for inculcating techniques in the brains of the lads.
Also speaking gaffer Abdul Maikaba lauded the players and most importantly teeming fans for remaining with the team in either thick or thin pledging their readiness to make them euphoric
But he stressed the need for them to always exercise restraint especially when the going is tough as soccer is a mixture of sweet and bitterness and as a wise word says there is no condition that is permanent
