Nigerian Sports Award hails Dream Team VI

. Salutes Aruna Quadri

Organizers of the Nigerian Sports Award have hailed the heroics of the national U-23 team (Dream Team VI) as they progressed to the quarter-finals at the Men’s Olympics Football Tournament Rio 2016 after a 1-0 victory over Sweden in Group B encounter last night at the Amazonia Arena in Manaus.

Sadiq Umar's 40th minute strike was enough to get all the three points against Sweden.

In congratulating the U-23 Eagles Team and Nigeria for the recent achievement in the Rio Olympics, the Executive Director of Unmissable Incentives, Mr. Kayode Idowu, hailed the teams’ remarkable performances in its first two opening games which has now solidified its place in the next round and also further identified the Dream Team as one of the favourites for the competition.

He noted that this achievement would further brighten the hope which sport loving Nigerians have placed in them and the entire athletic team representing Nigeria, as they all strive for gold in the 2016 Rio Olympic games.

Furthermore, Mr. Kayode Idowu also seized the moment to congratulate Nigerian Table Tennis Star Player and two-time winner of the Prestigious Nigerian Sports Award, Aruna Quadri on his performance so far at the ongoing competition.

Quadri qualified for the Round 4 of the men’s singles table tennis event after an awesome performance against world number seven, Chinese Taipei’s Chuang Chih-yuan.

Quadri in 24 minutes took his highly ranked opponent to the cleaners to keep Nigeria’s flag flying in the men’s singles table tennis event as well as keep his own Olympic dream afloat. 

  

Quadri beat Chuang 11-6, 12-10, 11-6, 11-7 and he will test his might against German star, Timo Boll, who was formerly world number one but at the moment ranked 13th in the world, tonight.

He had earlier on Sunday defeated Slovakia’s Yang Wang 4-1 to move to Round 3. He drawn bye in the Round 1.

Idowu afterward used the medium to restate the commencement of nominations for the 2016 edition of the Nigerian Sports Award. “The Rio Olympics competition has also provided another platform through which Nigerians can evaluate the performances of all the participants and nominate them for the upcoming Nigerian Sports Award. They can visit the official website of the award (www.nigeriansportsaward.com) or go through other social media platforms to nominate their sports personalities in the different categories” he said.