{"id":8895,"date":"2013-08-23T20:40:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T20:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigerian-newspapers\/mtn-lagos-street-soccer-season-six-begins\/"},"modified":"2013-08-23T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T20:40:39","slug":"mtn-lagos-street-soccer-season-six-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/mtn-lagos-street-soccer-season-six-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN Lagos Street Soccer: Season six begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><\/b>This weekend across Lagos, the season six of the MTN Lagos Street Soccer Championship will kick off with more than 900 teams participating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Secretary General of the Local Organising Committee, Deji Aladegbemi, teams in the men\u2019s event will kick start this season, while others would continue next weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 For this season, the men\u2019s teams were drawn into 138 groups with each group consisting of four or five teams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 The female teams were drawn into 13 groups while the U-15 teams were drawn into 54 groups.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cI think we are excited with the response from schools for the U-15 category and for us, this is a good development even as we hope to identify talents that we will groom for the state and the country at large. This year\u2019s tournament will be unique because we are planning to make it more exciting,\u201d Aladegbemi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cThe 2013 edition will offer a unique platform for teams to showcase mastery of the game within their respective wards and local governments in the early rounds of competition. Season six will be played in the following phases: round 1, 2, 3, 64, 32, 16, 8 and the finale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/> Posted in <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeriannewspapers.disnaija.com\/\">Nigerian Newspapers. <\/a>A <a href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" rel=\"external nofollow\">DisNaija.Com<\/a> network.<\/p>\n<p>Source:  Punch Newspaper<\/p>\n<p><b>DisNaija.Com<\/b> publishes regular posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/nigeria-news.disnaija.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Nigeria News,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/nigerian-newspapers.disnaija.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Nigerian Newspapers,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/online-nigeria.disnaija.com\/\" rel=\"external nofollow\">Online Nigeria Gist.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/nigeriannewspapers.disnaija.com\/punch\/mtn-lagos-street-soccer-season-six-begins\/\">Nigerian Newspapers<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dis_Naija\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\" data-size=\"large\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @Dis_Naija<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Your Opinion Counts. 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According to the Secretary General of the Local Organising Committee, Deji Aladegbemi, teams in the men\u2019s event will kick start this season, while others would continue next weekend. \u00a0 For this season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[59],"tags":[578,322,4430,4476,7282],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}