JagabanCup22: Messiah FC Goalie Akinola Labi Returned From Fractured Shoulder To Win Tournament’s Best

The not too long ago concluded JagabanCup22 held on the Mobolaji Johnson Enviornment in Lagos dropped at the limelight stars who need to be celebrated, one in every of them being Messiah FC’s Akinola Labi whose story and return from harm had been touching.

Nearly precisely a 12 months in the past, the goalkeeper suffered a fractured shoulder that saved him away from the sport for about eight months solely to make his return on the match.

“It’s a factor of pleasure, an exquisite factor that after the harm I might nonetheless stand and do that which had introduced reminiscences for me, leaving my beloved sport for months however I’m again and blissful,” Labi advised Sports247.

“I’ll like to understand everybody supporting me from day one, it’s been an exquisite expertise. I heard individuals say issues about me from the beginning of the match and I had a fracture that I assumed would finish my final 12 months,” Labi added.

The goalkeeper who noticed his aspect lose the ultimate 5-4 on penalties was voted the most effective goalkeeper of the match, an award offered by scouts Czech scouts from Slavia Praha, a feat Labi believes has signaled his return.

“I can see that I’m again. Individuals didn’t imagine we might go this far, I misplaced confidence however I needed to go the additional mile in coaching coming into this competitors and I’m glad to have earned this,” Labi concluded.

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