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Boavista arrives Nigeria for Bayelsa Utd

THE international friendly between Boavista of Portugal and Bayelsa United of Yenagoa is a reality after all as the Portuguese team expected in Nigeria this afternoon.
According to the Managing Director of Hally Sports International (consultant to Bayelsa United), Godwin Spiff-Sagbama, Boavista will arrive the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos by 5.00pm today and play Hally Sports Academy at the Police College sports ground tomorrow before moving to Benin on Sunday.
"Boavista will arrive Nigeria today and will be moved straight to their hotel. Tomorrow, they will play Hally Sports Football Academy at the Police
College, Ikeja and fly to Benin on Sunday enroute Oghara," Sagbama said.
He stressed that the Portuguese team would engage Nigeria FA Cup champion, Ocean Boys, on Monday and Bayelsa on Tuesday. According to him, "after the two matches on Monday and Tuesday, Boavista, Bayelsa United and Ocean Boys will be hosted by the Bayelsa State Governor on Wednesday, where a Memorandum of Understanding will be signed between Boavista and Bayelsa United."
Sagbama further expressed gratitude to the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for writing the Nigerian Embassy in Portugal, which in turn promptly facilitated Boavista's visa to the country.
Chairman of Bayelsa United, Victor Rumson Bari Bote, who stood in for the state commissioner for sports, said they were looking forward with optimism to the partnership with Boavista and thanked the media for the team's progress.

Boavista clashes with Ocean Boys in Oghara

Meets Bayelsa United tomorrow
By Adeyinka Adedipe

PORTUGUESE elite club, Boavista FC, will take on FA Cup champion, Ocean Boys of Yenagoa, today at the Oghara Stadium in Delta State, as it continues its playing tour of Nigeria.
The Portuguese played a 1-1 draw with Hally Sports Academy at the Police College playing round in Ikeja and would hope to do better when it takes on the Premier League teams. Boavista's Joad scored the opening goal in the 28th minute while Ramonu Alimi equalised for Hally Sport in the 70th minute.
The visiting team will also do battle with Bayelsa United in its last game. The Portuguese, who are hopeful of a successful playing tour, are upbeat about their chances against the host teams. One of the players, Rui Joao, said his team would take the games as they come, noting that the team is here to win and that has been the motivating factor.
"We are here to win our games. We do not think of losing and that spirit would propel us in our subsequent games," he said. "We have trained hard for this trip and we would not disappoint the teeming fans that would come to watch us take on their darling teams."
Apart from playing the Nigerian teams, Boavista, Bayelsa United and Ocean Boys will be hosted by the Bayelsa State Governor, Timipreye Silva, on Wednesday, where a Memorandum of Understanding would be signed between the club and Bayelsa United.

Ocean Boys hits Boavista 6-1
By Adeyinka Adedipe

YESTERDAY at the Oghara Stadium, Ocean Boys of Brass proved too good for Portuguese side, Boavista FC, beating the Europeans by a whopping 6-1 in one of the international friendly matches lined up for the visitors.
Five of Ocean Boy's goals were scored in the first half, with Bola Lekan netting a hat trick in the encounter. Lekan opened his account in the 10th minute and two minutes later he got another goal against the bemused Portuguese team. He completed his mission in the 22nd minute when he scored his club's fifth goal. But before then, Ifeanyi Ede had gotten into the act with the third goal in the 16th minute, with Onyekwere Nwosu making it fourth in the 20th minute.
Boavista came out stronger in the second half and reduced the tally in the 76th minute through Joad Nou. But Pere Kabokweme restored the five-goal advantage in the 85th minute to crown a surprise victory for the 2006 Globacom Premier League champion.
Speaking after the encounter, officials of Boavista attributed their heavy defeat to inclement weather, saying they played better in the second half when the sun had gone down. They also disclosed that they were trying to build a new team after their demotion to the Portuguese League Division last season.

Bayelsa, Boavista sign MoU
By Adeyinka Adedipe

OFFICIALS of the visiting Portuguese football club, Boavista, and the government of Bayelsa State yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at forging a fruitful relationship between the club and the state.
Among the terms of the agreement, according to the Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Peremobowei Ebibe, are the opportunities it would afford the government to exchange players and coaches from its clubs with that of Boavista and the grooming of Bayelsa youths by the club.
Ebibe disclosed at a reception for the club that the government was looking forward to the time Bayelsa players would be playing for the Portuguese team, adding that the MoU has opened an avenue for useful engagements for Bayelsa youths. He said: "We will key into the opportunity of the MoU for the development of our youths, and we look forward to a fruitful relationship."
In his reaction to the agreement, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) board member, Peter Singabele, who is also an official of the Bayelsa State Government, saw the agreement as a new window of opportunity for the state. He said the state's youth development and empowerment programme would get more impetus given the enthusiasm shown by both parties to the agreement.
Chairman of Ocean Boys of Brass, whose team is expected to benefit from the MoU, Rumson Bariobote, described the project as a tool that would make Niger Delta youths to believe in themselves and look up to footballers as role model.
According to him, Boavista's visit to Nigeria has exposed Ocean Boys' players to the international audience and the club is looking forward to reaping from the MoU between Bayelsa State and the Portuguese club.