Sporting Lagos: New generation club brace for life in the NPFL

By Daily Sports Nigeria on October 2, 2023

In just over a year, Sporting Lagos announced their coming from the NNL to the NPFL by upsetting the champions and creating rivalry in the southwest. But how will the club fare as they begin life in the top flight? ABIODUN ADEWALE reports

The astonishing rise of a new football club, Sporting Lagos, has sparked a new impression of structure, followership, branding and even rivalry in the Nigerian domestic football scene. So much that it makes a lot of people wonder if Nigerian club football has attracted such attention recently.

In two weeks, the club gained promotion to the Nigeria Professional Football League from the second division and also won the maiden Naija Super 8 tournament in front of a packed Mobolaji Johnson Arena, in what would be referred to as passing the litmus test of what is to come in the topflight.

On the surface, it might be hard for Sporting Lagos to appeal to people who have followed Nigerian club football for at least 30 years or more. But in an era when basic things like sense of community ownership, fans-players connection, rivalry and many other things which made club football tick in those days are fading away, it must be refreshing to see a private club or club(s) bringing back the memories.

Source Punch Ng

Posted October 2, 2023


 

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