Shoreline polo team has upped the ante of sporting rivalry between Nigeria and Ghana with a resounding victory over host at the recently concluded Accra Polo Club international friendly tournament.
To come out tops, the Shoreline team boasting youngsters like Sadiq Dantata, Tommy Ojora, Bolawa Tojoalaso and Adebayo Karim played two games against their host who presented two teams for the international friendly tourney that attracted a sizeable crowd of polo buffs from both Nigeria and Ghana.
Polo Royals can also report that the Nigerian teams showed great potentials and discipline in the final game, defeating their Ghanaian counterparts parading Ramzy A., Rashid A, Harold AD, and Dishan I, 71/2-7 in closely fought four chukkas clash, to lift that event’s biggest prize.
It was an exciting experience to watch these youngsters from Ghana and Nigeria show an exemplary sense of commitments, sporting discipline and friendship,” declared one of the invited umpires, Farouk Ibrahim.
“This is one youth tournament that should be sustained for the promotion of the noble game of polo across the region,” Ibrahim who officiated and conducted Umpire Clinic alongside Edozie Onwuli, added.
The Accra Polo Club was established in 1902 and the main first polo competition took place in 1903. The club has an enrollment of different nationalities consisting of Ghanaian, British, Nigerians, Canadians, French, North and South Americans, Germans, Italians, Lebanese and a large group of others.
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