Monday 22 October 2018

30 teams for Legacy Volleyball Championship


By Akeem Lawal
30 teams including Ghana Police Volleyball team and a team from Benin Republic will participate in this year’s edition of the Legacy Volleyball Championship which will take place at the Volleyball Court of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos from 5th to 10th November, 2018.


Chairman of Legacy Volleyball Club, Olukayode Ladele who made this known to Sportsbiz247.blogspot.com on Sunday, said all arrangements have been put in place to ensure a hitch-free competition.

“This tournament started five years ago with a one day tournament where we had five teams on parade. The second year we had close to 15 teams, while the third edition recorded over 20 teams with teams coming from every state in Nigeria including Benin Republic. This year is going to be bigger than what we used to be having.

“We are doing this to promote volleyball in the country, we are not asking anybody for money. Last year, we spent over six million and this time around we are going to spend more because we will give accommodation to all the teams that are coming for the whole one week. Last year we had medical partner that took care of all the players.


“The Customs, Nigeria Police, Army, Volleyball clubs in Jos, Kaduna, Kano will be at the tournament. So you can see a lot of players that are representing various Nigeria teams are going to be in one team or the other. So it is going to be highly competitive.

“The tournament is going to be on knock out basis and that is the reason we wanted to use the Indoor Sports Hall of the National Stadium which would have allowed us play all through the night. But right now that the federation has fixed the Volleyball League to the same time, we don’t know how possible the Indoor will be. But if they don’t agree that means we will add more lights here and that means we will be ending the tournament a day around 9 or 10pm,” Ladele said.

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