Multiple award winning technical adviser of the reigning NPFL champions, Rangers International F.C, Coach Fidelis Ilechukwu, has sounded it loud to the club’s teeming supporters that he and his lieutenants would be using the multi-million naira, 042 Coal City Int’L Cup, to kick start his re-building process in the team.
The pre-season tournament that would have teams from Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Benin Republic, Brazil and top teams from the NPFL, do soccer battle for the ultimate prize of fifty million naira with each participant earning an appearance fee of five million naira in every match played.
The grand opening ceremony is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at Villa Toscana Hotel, Enugu while the opening game takes place on Thursday, August 1, 2024 inside the main bowl of Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu, with Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan trading tackles with Sierra Leone’ F.C Kallon with kickoff fixed for 4:00 pm with the second match of the day slated to kick off by 7:00 pm, seeing Rangers International tackle Enyimba in an Oriental Derby.
“It is a good thing to have such quality teams in a preseason tournament and it will to a very large extent, help us monitor the players that we have registered for both the continent and domestic challenges,” Ilechukwu said ahead of the pre-season tourney, “
”Like I have been saying, we are re-building as the structure we had earlier set up has been shaken a bit and we have some new talents that need to be blooded into our playing philosophy.
“I believe that we shall get good results from the preseason games.”
