Tuesday 18 September 2012

Heartland aims to retain the Federation Cup – Madu



Ahead of this weekend’s Federation Cup finals at the Teslim Balogun Stadium,manager of Heartland Football Club, Ramson Madu, is upbeat that his team will retain the title,which they are the defending champions.
Heartland survived the scare put up by Prime FC in the semi-finals,as they needed a penalty shoot-out to defeat the Osogbo side at the Ilorin township stadium.
The finals on Sunday will now be between Heartland and Lobi Stars,who equally won their semi-finals game against Kano Pillars via penalties.
Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria, Madu said that playing against Lobi will not be a problem for his team: “We are out of the NPL contest but we remain focused on the Federation Cup and we are going to win the trophy back-to-back having won the championship in 2011.”
Heartland pipped neighbours, Enyimba, last year to win the Federation cup and would be looking to do a repeat,when they play Lobi on Sunday.

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