{"id":15879,"date":"2017-07-25T11:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T10:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=15879"},"modified":"2017-07-25T11:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T10:06:16","slug":"mccarthy-obanor-wins-nigeria-national-freestyle-championships-goes-home-car-n1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/mccarthy-obanor-wins-nigeria-national-freestyle-championships-goes-home-car-n1m\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Obanor wins Nigeria National Freestyle Championships, Goes Home with Car, N1m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">History was made in Lagos at the weekend as Mr. McCarthy Obanor emerged the winner of the first edition of the Nigeria National Freestyle Championship accredited by the World Federation of Freestyle Football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0Apart from winning the sum of N1m, Obanor also won for himself a\u00a0brand\u00a0new GAC car and will also be representing Nigeria at the World Super Ball Championships in Prague, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0Obanor defeated 15 other contestants in the hotly contested men\u2019s final, which clearly\u00a0displayed increasing talent in the sporting industry and\u00a0in the country.\u00a0He\u00a0defeated Mayowa Bababunmi, a medical doctor, to clinch the coveted prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0In the\u00a0female\u00a0category, Rasheedat Ajubade, the captain of Nigeria\u2019s Under 17 Women National Team clinched the title, winning\u00a0the sum of a million Naira. Ajibade, a professional footballer,\u00a0 defeated Chidinma Okeke, another professional footballer, in another hotly contested final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0Apart from the winners, the final four were rewarded with cash prizes starting from the fourth position who both went home with the sum of N250,000 each in the men and women\u2019s events. Third place finishers\u00a0were rewarded with the sum of N500,000\u00a0each\u00a0and\u00a0the first\u00a0runners-up\u00a0got\u00a0N750,000\u00a0each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0The chairman,\u00a0Feet \u2018n\u2019 Tricks International, organisers of the event, Valentine Ozigbo, promised a better outing in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0\u201cWe are glad to have celebrated our home-grown freestylers\u00a0 in an extraordinary fashion, breaking a number of records from the most active participation of womenfolk in the competition of quality and volume of prizes to world class ambience down to the richness and diversity of judging panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0\u201cWe have succeeded in creating \u00a0role models for many other youths on this street , as through this medium, our youth will see in freestyling an opportunity\u00a0\u00a0 to live a good life, build career, pursue their passion and pursue other goals in life,\u201d Ozigbo said<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0He used the occasion to appreciate all those who supported the competition, promising\u00a0 a better competition in 2018 and beyond<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0\u201cApart from those that supported us this year like GAC Motors, FIRS, Five Star Music, VFD Group, all the media houses and others who in one way or other supported us, there were so many others who because of time constraints could not come on board, so we are expecting them next year.\u00a0 \u201cIt is going to be bigger and better next year, we are going to be working will all that were part of this year\u2019s and more others that will be joining us, \u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0To demonstrate Freestyle Football as entertainment, the packed audience at Ikeja City Mall were\u00a0entertained by the best of Nigerian musical artists including Kcee, Timaya, Kaffy, Skiibii, Soma, Abiodun Koya and many others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv7587508060MsoNormal\">\u00a0The event was also witnessed by top personalities in sport, entertainment and business, including the football legend, Kanu Nwankwo, the Vice President of Nigerian Football Federation, Seyi Akinwunmi, the former European Freestyle Football Champion, Daniel Mikolajek and the President and Founder of the World Federation of Freestyle Football, Daniel Wood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Caption:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From left: Managing Director, VFD, Microfinance Limited, Azubuike Emodi; Super Falcon Defender , Onome Ebi; Female Champion, Rasheed Ajibade ; and Chairman, Feet \u2018n\u2019 Tricks, Valentine Ozigbo at \u00a0the grand finale of Nigerian Freestyle Football Competition, organised by Feet \u2018n\u2019 Tricks Limited in Lagos on Sunday<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History was made in Lagos at the weekend as Mr. McCarthy Obanor emerged the winner of the first edition of the Nigeria National Freestyle Championship accredited by the World Federation of Freestyle Football. \u00a0Apart from winning the sum of N1m, Obanor also won for himself a\u00a0brand\u00a0new GAC car and will also be representing Nigeria at &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2408],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-15879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","tag-freestyle-championships"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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