Tag: Kabir Dogo

  • NPFL: We are targeting 65 points this season, says Dogo

    NPFL: We are targeting 65 points this season, says Dogo

    Technical Adviser of Sunshine Stars, Kabir Dogo, says his team is targeting at least 65 points by the end of the ongoing 2019/2020 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL).

    Dogo said this in his post-match interview, after his team defeated visiting Ifeanyi Ubah FC 2-0 in the match day 19 clash at the Ondo State Sports Complex, Akure on Sunday.

    The gaffer said his team is playing better this season and ready to face any team in the league.

    “Before the beginning of the season in Ibadan, we had a meeting with the players during which we targeted 65 points.

    “Out of the 65 points now, we have achieved 30, we believe if we can secure 65 points, we can achieve continental ticket,” he said.

    Sunshine Stars midfielders, Jose Fatokun and Anthony Omaka got the maximum points for the home team.

    Fatokun opening goal was from Wasiu Jimoh’s corner kick in the 24th minute while Omaka emulated his midfield partner by scoring from a corner, also taken by Jimoh in the 30th minute to make it 2-0.

    Dogo congratulated his players and the entire people of Ondo State for what the team had achieved in the first stanza of the league.

    Coach of Ifeanyi Ubah, Uche Okagwe said his players lost the game due to lack of concentration and inexperience.

    “We conceded those two goals due to lack of concentration, it’s lack of experience and lack of concentration from the boys; if you notice, they are all new players from non- league sides,” he said.

    Okagwe however said he will plan Sunshine Stars’ downfall in the second stanza.

    “We are going to pay them back in their own coins,” he assured.

    Sunshine Stars is going into the mid season break with 30 points from 19 matches.(NAN)

  • NPFL: Dogo can’t sign for another club – Sunshine Stars Director

    NPFL: Dogo can’t sign for another club – Sunshine Stars Director

    The Director of Sunshine Stars FC of Akure, Tunde Ogunja, says the Technical Adviser of the team, Kabir Dogo, is contract bound with the club and cannot sign for another club.

    Ogunja is reacting to speculations that Dogo has signed a contract with his former club, Nassarawa United.

    He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Akure that it would be impossible for the renowned tactician to leave without negotiations with his current club.

    The official described the insinuation that Sunshine Stars Dogo had left the club for fellow Nigeria professional football league side Nasarawa United as fake news.

    The former national footballer said all contract agreement with coach Dogo were intact and that the coach only took excuse to pay attention to family matters in Ilorin.

    According to him, the management of the Ondo State Football Agency (ODSFA) had fulfilled the required logistics demanded to make coach Dogo’s assignment easier with the recent procurement of a car for the coach’s mobility.

    He called for calm, saying that the team remained focus in achieving the set target in the 2019/2020 league season.

    “To the best of my knowledge, he still has a contract with us, we don’t know whether he has resigned or not; we have to sit on the round table and talk things through.

    “Although he called me and said he was going to Ilorin that his daughter is seriously ill, I told him to his face that I have heard he  will come back.

    “He complained about benefits like housing, vehicle and we just bought him one.

    “To the best of my knowledge he has not resigned, he has contract with us, if he decides to dump us, that is a breach of contact,” Ogunja said. (NAN)