Sunshine Stars relocates to Benin for Champions League
Monday, July 2, 2012
Sunshine Stars of Akure
will move its training base to
Team coach Gbenga Ogunbote
said the move is to ensure that the 2010/2011 NPL runner-up remains focused on
the home game against the Tunisian club: “We need all the concentration for
this encounter.
“It’s our first game of
the group phase and there is need for us to start on a high note. I know it
would be a difficult encounter considering that they are the defending
champions, but I am confident that we would get the three points a stake.”
The coach admitted that
his team was under pressure to win, as the only Nigerian club still in
contention for continental glory this year. The man, who led the Akure club to
the semi-finals of last year’s CAF Confederation Cup, where it lost to another
Tunisian club, Club Africain, added: “We are under pressure naturally, but I am
convinced we will manage this well.
“Esperance is a good side
and I am looking forward to a good start in the group with victory against the
defending champions. A win will hugely boost our morale.”
Meanwhile, CAF has
released officials for this weekend’s group stages of the Orange CAF Champions
League across the continent.
The release has it that
Referee Gassama Bakary will be assisted by Jawo Dickory and Baldeh Salifu,
while Jallow Mando is the fourth official. The Match Commissioner and the
General Co-ordinator, Louis Laryea and Alex Asante respectively, are from
The other Group A fixture
sees ASO Chlef of Algeria and Etoile Sportif de Sahel squaring up at the
Mohamed Boumezrag Stadium in Chlef at the weekend, with Malian referees in
charge.
Group B has two Egyptian
clubs, Zamalek and El Ahly, Berekum Chelsea of
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