NUGA: LAUTECH, OAU players fight
February 21, 2014 by Sodiq Oyeleke
The
ongoing 24th edition of the Nigerian Universities Games took an ugly
dimension on Wednesday as physical attacks were recorded at various
venues.
While a fight erupted between Ladoke
Akintola University and Obafemi Awolowo teams over perceived poor
officiating, players of the University of Maiduguri attacked the referee
for penalising one of their players which they said gave their
opponents advantage.
LAUTECH took to protest after losing
17-12 to OAU in a handball match. The protest escalated when coach Abu
of the OAU approached his LAUTECH counter-part to complain about the
conduct of his players. As the LAUTECH players saw their coach with Abu,
they pushed away OAU’s coach and dragged their coach closer, preventing
him from speaking with their opponent.
The development, however, made the OAU
players furious and thus led to a fight between the two teams. They
exchanged blows and attacked each other with weapons like sticks and
stones.
Other teams, that could be identified by
their jerseys, that joined the fight were Ekiti State University;
Federal University of Technology, Minna; and Niger Delta University.
Coach Abu said, “That is the highest
insult a player has ever done to me. I was speaking to the coach, not
the players. I was only telling him of what his team and supporters did
to me during the match.”
It took the intervention of security
officials to end the crisis as LAUTECH players threatened to attack any
journalist that attempts to interview their coach.
In another development, team UNIMAID who
lost to Bayero University Kano in a football match that ended 2-0
attacked the referee and other officials of the match.
Both teams needed three points to
qualify to the quarter final stage of the competition and that made the
tension higher during the match. A minor scuffle had started in the
second half of the match when the referee blew against a UNIMAID player
but was settled for the match to continue. Shortly after the final
whistle was blown, UNIMAID players were seen pursuing the referee, who
ran to meet other official but could not escape the wrath of the
players.
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Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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