El-Amin waxing stronger nearly two decades on

They remain the first team to tour the middle east on a special invitation of the Emirates in 2009 when Alhaji Mohammed Babangida led his all-conquering team to Dubai for an international tournament as Nigerian flag bearers in the event.
 Only days ago, with the great and a surging crowd watching on at a packed legendary Murtala Mohammed Polo Ground, the polo kings, successfully defended the title they won for the tenth times last year, defeating former winners, Abuja Rubicon on a balmy November evening in Kaduna.
In doing so, they became only Nigerian high-goal polo organization in the over a century history of the noble game in the country, to win the one of the biggest and the most revered polo cup in Africa, a record eleven times.
A peep into their loaded titles shelf leaves millions of polo buffs across the world in awe, as they stand out as the only Nigerian team in the 300 years old history of Georgian Cup, to have won the silver ware eleven times.
They are the only team to give out up to six goals handicap difference and still win the match, thus confirming their legendary status in the game of kings in Nigeria. As earlier mentioned, the club is the first African and Nigerian team to participate in the Gold Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
They are also the only team to contribute three players, top rated Bello Buba, Ibrahim Mohammed and Mohammad Babangida to the National team at the Polo World Cup playoff in Malaysia.
The Kaduna formed club pride themselves as the first to have won all the high-goal titles severally, Majekodunmi in Lagos, Emir of Kano in Kano, Nigerian Cup in Katsina, General Hassan Cup in Port Harcourt and IBB Cup in Minna in just their first ten years together.
While EL-Amin’s intimidating achievement keep soaring,  the team of the Decade award winners is  indebted to their relentless chemistry which last week fetched them the Georgian crown, the Argentine Ambassador’s Cup, and the Sardauna Cup in a triple crown performance.
While Chief predator, Buba, became the first Nigerian player to win the Georgian title a record 15 times, Babangida who has won the Georgian title twelve times, added the Emir of Katsina with Kaduna Yula Farms to his bagful of honours.
That statement and record achievement, though, doesn’t tell the whole story of the polo gurus, masters of the Georgian Cup and the most consistent high-goal polo team in Africa, which have played together for 20 years come next year.