White Tigers Win Three Consecutive Spires 5-Aside Title
Lagos Island based side White Tigers FC have emerged champions of the Spires 5-Aside Naija Street Soccer Tournament 2026.
The coach Emmanuel Olom tutored side who won the past two editions of the tournament in 2024 and 2026 defeated Oworonshoki’s Wasola football club 4-2 in Saturday’s final at the Stables sports ground in Surulere Lagos.
White Tigers received a prize money of N5 million naira as champions. Wasola FC pocketed the sum of N3 million as runner-up, while Agege’s ASDI Academy went home with N1 million after beating All Saints Football Club of Badagry 2-0 in the third place match.
Moses Henry emerged as the tournament most valuable players and top scorer with seventeen (17) goals. He went home with the sum of N500,000 for both honors.
Head coach of White Tigers FC Emmanuel Olom won the coach of the tournament and N250,000, while his goalkeeper Azeez Shittu won the best goalkeeper of the campaign He received the sum of N250,000 and a Golden Glove trophy.
As part of the closing ceremony, Fifty-two (52) free laptops computers were presented to selected participants of the Spires Sports Meet-tech program, an initiative that trained over 200 youths in various tech skills such as Microsoft Word, Cybersecurity, Machine learning, Coding amongst others.
The initiator of the tournament, Dr. Bankole Allibay believes that the tournament will only get better as they continue to build on the successes recorded to make the next edition an even greater success.
“This year’s event is very special because we expanded other initiatives around the tournament, we trained more participants in our Sports Meet-tech 2.0 program, and we initiated the Spires Media Award to honour those who have supported us in the journey thus far, it was truly a successful campaign and I am so excited”. Allibay said.
