Lagos FA Cup: Former Champions Bow To Non-league Team, Gbagada FC

The 2016 Lagos FA Cup didn't see any major upset until a non league team, Gbagada FC sent former Lagos FA Cup champions, AS Racines out of the competition.

These young chaps played the tiki-taka kind of football and that consistency got some fans at the
Agege stadium cheering them on. Gbagada FC knocked 3 Pillars FC out of the competition in the first round but a date with AS Racine who play in the Nigeria Nationwide League division two looks more like the end of the road for the young boys from Gbagada.

Twice the favorite, AS Racine were in front and twice Gbagada FC leveled and won 4-3 via penalties and they have now progressed to the round of sixteen however the coach of Gbagada FC, Jide Akinyelu pulled a lot of talks from the fans as some called him Arsene Wenger due to the way he dressed and his gesture while the match was going on.

"We are a neighborhood team and the FA Cup is big competition for us. For us to come this far is a huge success for us," Coach Jide Akinyelu told Footyalert

"Words can't explain how I feel right now, as a team we are very happy.

"I used to play football before now but I couldn't go to the professional level because I don't have the strength to go that far but I decided to sign up for a coaching course at the National Institute of Sports and after the training I knew I needed a team to practice so I formed a team in our neighborhood at Gbagada .

If you checked at our neighborhood you'll realize that these boys are celebs in their own right in Gbagada because they play football. We've been together for two years now and it's beautiful that we are doing well," Jide stated.