{"id":6401,"date":"2025-08-16T06:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2025-08-16T06:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T06:42:51","slug":"warri-wolves-battle-bendel-insurance-in-bayelsa-pre-season-football-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/warri-wolves-battle-bendel-insurance-in-bayelsa-pre-season-football-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Warri Wolves Battle Bendel Insurance in Bayelsa Pre-season Football Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200eBy David Owei,Bayelsa
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\nWarri Wolves will battle Bendel Insurance in the final of the Bayelsa Pre-season Football Tournament on Saturday ahead of the August 22nd kick-off of the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL.
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The players final of the Bayelsa Pre-season Football Tournament<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u200eThe Bayelsa Pre-season Football Tournament has in the last few days witnessed beautiful football from four NPFL teams, Warri Wolves, Kun Khalifat, Bendel Insurance and Bayelsa United as well as Prosperity Cup champions, Eternal Grace Ministry, EGM FC and Bayelsa U-20 side.<\/p>\n

Players<\/p>\n

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Players posing for Bayelsa final tournament<\/p><\/div>\n

In one of the semi-final matches between Insurance and Bayelsa United U-20, \u200eIsaac Omijie opened the floodgate of goals from the Benin Arsenals on 15 minute from a beautiful finish, making it his third goal in the competition.
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\n\u200eThe host Bayelsa United U-20 team however posed some threats to the Benin Arsenals but the very-composed Insurance side continued their pressure on Bayelsa United U-20 team, who look solid in the first half. Adewale Adebayo on 64 minute added another to make it two nil for the coach Greg Ikhenoba-tutored side.
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\n\u200eElmer Arunta on 71 minute compounded the woes of Bayelsa United U-20 as he took advantage of a spilled ball from the goalkeeper to calmly slot it in to make it three nil in favour of the Benin Arsenals.
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\n\u200eIn the second match of the day, Warri Wolves humbled host Bayelsa United by two unreplied goals to advance to the final. An own goal from Arise Ogundare on 20 minute and Tejiri on 47 minute helped the Warri seasiders move into the final.
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\n\u200eBayelsa United Head Coach, Meremu Okara in his post match reaction, said the competition has helped to know his team’s weaknesses, pointing that they are working round the clock to correct these lapses before the league commences.
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\n\u200eWarri Wolves technical adviser, Napoleon Alumua, noted that the tournament has helped them to perfect their plans, that he is pleased with his team’s performance.
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\n\u200eHe appreciated the Bayelsa State Government and the organizers for putting the tournament together, pointing out that the competition has helped all the participating teams.
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\n\u200eBendel Insurance technical adviser, Greg Ikhenoba in an interview asserted that he is pleased with the progress of his team, stressing that his players are adapting to his philosophy and pattern of play.
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\n\u200eThe final of the Bayelsa Pre-season Football Tournament comes up on Saturday, 16th August at 4.00p.m. at the Samson Siasia Stadium, Yenagoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u200eBy David Owei,Bayelsa \u200e Warri Wolves will battle Bendel Insurance in the final of the Bayelsa Pre-season Football Tournament on Saturday ahead of the August 22nd kick-off of the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL. \u200e   \u200eThe Bayelsa Pre-season Football Tournament has in the last few days witnessed beautiful football from four NPFL teams, Warri […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[811,1528,4084,4086,4087,4083,4085,998],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-football","tag-grassroots","tag-organisers","tag-philosophy","tag-players-for-final-of-the-bayelsa-pre-season-football-tournament","tag-pre-season","tag-soccer","tag-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6408,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions\/6408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}