Still on my sporting memory, another beautiful memory I want to share was in 2003 when we took up the challenge to defend our trophy since we were the defending champion of the competition.
This was the team that took part at the final of that years competition, you can see next to the goal keeper
At the group stage we came out runners up, I played for Effiat Offot village because that's were am coming from, so we were fixed at the quarter finals to take up Afaha Offot which we eliminated them, and then we were fixed to played Anua Offot at the semi finals were we also eliminated them and qualified for the finals of that years competition, you needed to witness the celebration that day, it was really exciting.
The finals of the competition was between Effiat Offot Vs Iboko Offot, we had a good run throughout the competition until the finals when our number one goal keeper suffer an injury at 78th minutes of match, at this point, the match was a 1-0 in favour of us, it was such a blow to our team at that time, because the person we had on our bench as our second keeper was not a good one, our second goal keeper was not available that for the the match.
That's me kneeling down next to the goal keeper 2003
A new goal keeper was introduce into the game at about 80th minutes and the match continued but to our greatest surprise the new goal keeper gave us the shock of our life when he score a own goal that leads to our draw in the final match of the competition, we later when to the penalty shot out and match end 4-5 in favour of Iboko Offot, although we took the second position in the 2003 OFFOT UNITY CUP, it was such a sad moment to the team, the village and to all our supporters because nobody expected us to lose that match because our team played so well.
The memory of this particular competition was so sad but funny, the bad thing is that I don't have the video of that particular scene that acted by the new goal keeper, you would have laugh yourself out at what that goal keeper did that leads to the own goal, it was really funny but sad. Even at that we had a good time with the big guys in the village who were there encourage and support us not to be so sad because we made a fine display if not for the mistake of the keeper we would have come out victorious.
Although the celebration was not that big, mine was not too bad because aside from the second position trophy that we celebrated, I also went home with a brand new boot as the top scorer of the competition for the second time, I score six goals during the tournament, I was not playing from no nine (9) position, I played from number eleven (11) position but luckily for me I had so many chances to score goals, I participated on that particular competition for about seven years, and in this seven years I had three top scorer award, two times winner of the competition and two times runners up.
Lots of other gift item were usually given to me, especially clothes, shoes and books because as at my first three appearance I was still in my secondary school.
I love sport a lot, I have too many wonderful memories of me involving in sporting activities I would still love to share with you, there are beautiful memory to reflect back on.