The Year 2014 in Sports: Most Epic Wins and Heartbreaking It has been another memorable sporting year, with a healthy dose of highs and lows across the board. From the history-makers to the simply brilliant,-down to the heartbreaking events. However, Oyosportsnews have pulled together some sporting moments in 2014- most especially in Oyo state and from our national teams. But before we do that, We want to thank everyone on this forum. Youve made year 2014 a remarkable for Oyo SportsNews. We appreciate your advice, contribution, suggestion and support. We cant mention names but we specially thank you. For those that do give us live update across league venue centres; you are too much. God bless you. January 20, 2014. Crown FC emerged the Champion of Oyo state pre-season tourney held at Lekan Salami stadium. The Ogbomoso based side won 5-3 via penalties after 1-1 regulation time against Atiba United. February 1st, 2014. Nigeria Home-Based Eagles came third at CHAN tournament in South Africa with a goal win over Zimbabwe. Ejike Uzeonyi was also voted player of the tournament, he was also one of the three Nigerians named in the CHAN 2014 Best Eleven as well as Kano Pillars’ Rabiu Ali and Sunshine Stars’ Kunle Odunlami. February 16, 2014. Shooting stars began their quest for promotion ticket with a goalless draw in the league opener at Ijebu-Ode against Remo stars. The away point helped 3SC to achieve their promotion ambition. February 20th, 2014. The embattled Oyo Sports Commissioner, Farouk Alao in his level of education and knowledge coupled with the aid of his local dogs instigated the state Football Association which they later banned Oyo SportsNews Reporter from all stadia in Oyo state. March 7, 2014. Crown FC played their first game following their second appearance at the elite league cadre with a 1-0 loss to Lobi stars of Makurdi at the Kastina-Ala stadium. March 15, 2014. Shooting stars sacked 18players after Week 8 of action in the Nigeria National League. The club said the players fizzled out. May 21st, 2014. Team Oyo Football team humbled Team Lagos 2-1 to book a final at the maiden DAWN Games (South-West Secondary School Sports Festival) in Lagos. May 23rd, 2014. Team Oyo lost 1-0 to Team Ogun in the male football final. May 25th, 2014. Still on DAWN games, Team Oyo settled for third position with 7 gold, 18 silver and 43 bronze. May 29, 2014. The annual Principals Cup now called Governors Cup Football competition final were not held in Oyo state for the first time in five years under Farouk Alao in spite the financial support and thousands of committees that were constituted. May 31st, 2014. Oyo state male basketball team after four months of unpaid salaries and 7 match bonuses managed and finished fourth on the Atlantic conference of the Dstv Basketball League and also qualified for Super 8 play-off in Lagos. Though the team failed to win a single match at the play-off. August 3, 2014. At the end of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Team Nigeria finished in eighth position, winning. 11 gold, 11 silver and 14 bronze medals. August 6, 2014. Crown FC recorded her first home defeat by Lobi stars in Ibadan. August 9, 2014. Crown FC players threatened to go on strike to press for their unpaid salaries, the players were later ignored and asked to resume. August 9, 2014. Nigeria Nation-wide league side, Atiba united secured promotion to the Nigeria National League behind Gray FC. Atiba earned 27points with 12 goals advantage. August 15, 2014. Nigeria also ended its campaign in second position on the medals table with eight gold, nine silver and seven bronze medals at Marrakech 2014 in Morocco. August 24, 2014. Nigeria’s Falconets (U20) lost to Germany in the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup final which took place in Montreal, Canada. It was 1-0. After 90 minutes and an extra time, Lena Petermann scored for her country, defeating Peter Dedevbos girls. August 24, 2014. Falconets forward Asisat Oshoala was voted the Most Valuable player at the 2014 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada. She won the Golden Ball award as the best player and Golden Boot after scoring seven goals. September 6, 2014. The Super Eagles of Nigeria lost a competitive home game for the first time in 33 years in African Nations Cup with a 3-2 qualifying defeat by Congo in Calabar. October 19, 2014. Crown lost another home league fixture to Rangers by 3-0 in Ibadan. October 23rd, 2014. Crown FC recorded her biggest defeat in the Nigeria Premier League with a 7-1 away loss to Warri Wolves October 25, 2014. The Super Falcons of Nigeria defeated Cameroon 2-0 to win the ninth edition of the African Women Championship (AWC) in Windhoek, Namibia. Goals from Desire Oparanozie and Asisat Oshoala were all Nigeria needed to reclaim the AWC title. By reaching the final, Nigeria and Cameroon had already qualified for next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup finals in Canada. November 16, 2014. Shooting stars of Ibadan made a blissful return to the Glo Nigeria Premier League. Aside Shooting Stars; Wikki Tourists and Gabros have also won promotion back to NPFL November 17, 2014. Crown FC were officially relegated from the NPFL to the NNL. Top source claimed poor funding affected the team. November 17, 2014. Kano Pillars won the league title for the third consecutive time after a tight contest with runner_up Enyimba. November 19, 2014. Just like it happened in 2012 when Samson Siasia failed to qualify Nigeria for Gabon/Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria also failed to qualify for next year AFCON in Equatorial Guinea after a 2-2 draw against South Africa. November 23rd 2014. Two-time African champions Enyimba defeated Dolphins 2-1 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos to claim their fourth Federation Cup title.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:06:40 +0000
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