The Chairman of Kwara United Football Club, Kumni Titiloye has charged the team to win its last match of the season against Heartland FC of Owerri tomorrow, Sunday June 23, 2024, to appreciation the support they enjoyed from the fans this season.
Titiloye said that the fans and supporters of the team played a significant and memorable role in the bid towards sustaining the team in the topflight, and giving them what to cheer on Sunday means a lot, asides other benefits attached to winning it.
Kwara United is currently placed 13th on the log with 48 points, with high level of margin of scaling through with just a point, even as the Chairman averred that winning the match will be much appropriated.
He said that events last season and the ongoing season have been challenging, especially owing to the fact that the team played all its matches away from home in 2022/2023 season because of the re-grassing of the pitch of the Main-Bowl, and staring this season relatively late.
Titiloye added that the management, with the support of the Sports Commission and by extention, the government made major changes in the playing staff mid into the season with new additions, and as well, drafted Coach Tunde Sanni into the team to provide technical depth for the coaching crew.
He commended the state government for its continuous support to the team. He equally commended the Sports Commission, the stakeholders as well as the Fans and Supporters of the club for standing firmly behind the team, despite the challenges.
Titiloye also thanked other management members, players and non playing staff for their resilience and sacrifice, as the team successfully survived yet another threat to the sustainance of its Premier League status.
He enjoined the fans and supporters to troop out enmasse, to cheer the team to victory.
Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest star, Taiwo Awoniyi is expected to be at the stands tomorrow as Kwara United Football Club trade tackles with Heartland FC of Owerri in their last match of the 2023/2024 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL) season, at the State Stadium Complex, Ilorin.
Taiwo, who just signed a four years sponsorship deal with Kwara Youth League confirmed his availability for the match, to motivate the players to put in their best against the already relegated and wounded Owerri side.