El-Amin retain Georgian Cup

El Amin Polo Club of Kaduna yesterday won the Georgian Cup title for the 12th time.
The team at the just concluded Kaduna International polo tournament also won its ýthird successive Argentine Ambassador Cup, to celebrate their 20th anniversary, after beating Kaduna Keffi Ponies 12- 4 at the 2015 tournament.
The defending champions had earlier defeated rivals Abuja Guards Brigade Rubicon 9 -7 to set up a final with Keffi Ponies at the Kaduna polo ground at Murtala Square Kaduna.
El Amin went into the final with a star studded team that included Nigeria’s number one polo star, Bello Buba, ace midfield player, Ibrahim Mohammed, with Argentine born Santiago Cernedas, hard hitting back man, founder and patron of the team, Mohammed Babangida and substitute Bashir Musa.
With this victory, El-Amin has dominated Africa’s most prestigious polo trophy made of Georgian silver in 1785 in the last two decades.
The Kaduna El Amin polo team however failed to retain the Sardauna Cup as they lost to the 2015 selected side on handicap after drawing the match 3-3.
Governor Mohammed Jibrilla Bindow of Adamawa State who was at the closing ceremony expressed readiness of his administration to support and encourage sports development in the state to ensure development and creation of job opportunities for the teeming youth in the state. 
Presenting the Northern Governors’ Unity Cup to the Kaduna Polo Club to be contested annually in the tournament, Governor Bindow said that, as a youth, he knows the importance of sports in youth development and he would employ that to create job opportunities for the teeming youth in the state.
“The Kaduna polo club officials came to Adamawa to invite me to this tournament that is why I’m here. I’m happy to be here, as a youth in sporty myself. Polo is everybody’s game, now I’m in polo want to call on youth to participate in the game and in sports generally, as a means of keeping themselves fit and engaged.
“We are doing well in sports in Adamawa State, Adamawa United FC came first in the Nationwide League and have qualified for the Premier League next season. We will encourage and support the team to do well in the Premier League, we are not supporting football only we want to support and encourage all sports as part of youth development and to generate employment opportunity for our teeming youth in the state,” the Governor said.