Bourdex Foundation Unity Cup For Abia North. (Football Tournament)
The Bourdex Foundation Unity Cup Football Tournament kicked off on Sunday February 5, 2017. The tournament promises to produce winners and runners-up, after a scintillating display of soccer artistry of our youth in Abia North.
During the tournament spanning February 5-16, 2017; teams from the various towns and villages in Abia North Senatorial District will compete for honours.
Winners would smile home with the Unity Cup in addition to a cash reward of N500,000.00 while the first and second runners-up will receive N300, 000.00 and N200, 000.00 respectively. There will also be consolation prizes for different categories of participants during the closing ceremony on February 16, 2017 at the Abiriba Township Stadium.
Giving Back Package:
The Bourdex Foundation Football Tournament is another offering from Chief (Dr.) David Ogba Onuoha Bourdex MFR, OON; as part of his Giving Back To Community Package (GBCP), which he promised during his prestigious Ime Uche ceremony on December 28, 2015.
Through the Bourdex Foundation Football Tournament, I wish to wake up the football giants within the youths of Abia North Senatorial District, as part of my determination to provide enabling environment for our young people to display their talents.
I know that in each and every human being lies potentials for greatness in one form or the other. What is lacking is the opportunity and encouragement for the individual to discover and make his/her talent flower and bear fruits for his/her good and that of his immediate community.
Bringing out the best in our young people is a task I have given to myself after my Ime Uche, the ceremonial of cultural cum traditional retirement from community service.
In choosing to help well meaning and endowed young people to discover their God-given talents and become useful members of society, I won’t waver or get tired.
Every confident and capable young person from Abia North should count on me for support to be the best s/he can be and rise to the level destined for him/her by God in life. I believe, together we can make our community/nation better if each one brings out that special gifting for public good.
I have no doubt that from the Bourdex Football Tournaments, which has been programmed as a yearly event for young people in the month of LOVE, champions would emerge and special talents discovered for further push into global soccer stardom.
As we get set to compete, let us all remember the lessons of football, which is TEAMWORK and imbibe its discipline which is FAIRPLAY.
In this game, everybody is a WINNER!!
Let the competitions begin and may the best team WIN!!!
Chief (Dr.) David Ogba Onuoha Bourdex MFR, OON
“Ugoena” Nde Abiriba.
