A key female player with Spartans flag football team,
Rashidat Koleoso has revealed secrets behind her side’s sensational
back-to-back conquest of the Showtime Bowl Series in Lagos.
A 58-53 victory over Warrriors ensured that Koleoso
and her colleagues won for a second straight year the competition organised by
Showtime Flag Football League (SFFL).
Her team’s feat at Meadow Hall in Lekki area of Lagos
State also meant that Spartans got the winners’ cash award of N6m, with N4m
going to the second placed Warriors.
While sharing her emotions with sports247.ng after the
game, Rashidat Koleoso said her side’s victory was made possible by dint of
hard work and through the grace of God.
Koleoso affirmed, “I will say it was because we put in
hard work.
“We never expected that we could win this competition
again, but we thank God.”
Koleoso went on to explain that she and her colleagues
celebrated their victory lavishly because they were happy to have pulled off
consecutive cup-winning feats in the competition’s two-year history.
“This victory means a lot to me and my teammates. We
won it last season, and we have now done it again. We are super excited,”
Koleoso disclosed.
Observers of the final were equally excited that
Nigerian players have come of age in the novel sport, which is a variant of
American Football.
However, rather than tackle opponents to the ground,
each player tries to pluck a flag from the other person’s body in order to
score points.
The game is played with an oval ball being tossed from
one teammate to another, in order to cross the line of the opposing squad with
it and gain more points.
A total of 12 teams contested this year’s edition,
which was tagged Showtime Bowl Series XI and was decided through a co-ed
format, with seven players of mixed gender on either side.
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