Pepsi Street Cup Tournament Ends in Lagos With More Excitement For Fans

L-R: Head Marketing Seven-up Bottling Company, Norden Thurston, Manager Key Account SBC, Patricia Odia-Iletogun, Captain of Awori Street FC, Austin Joseph, Coach of the team, Lawal Kolawole and GM, Ikeja Region SBC Dele Abioye, at the Pepsi Street Cup Tournament which ended on Saturday. The football tournament tagged Pepsi Street Cup Tournament has finally come to an end. The tourney has been creating loads of excitement in different parts of Nigeria for some weeks now and on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st of June 2014, it took Lagos fans by storm, as the grand finale of the event came to an end in style. Staged in the football cities of Ajegunle-Apapa and Egbeda centres simultaneously, the event saw fans troupe in to watch the display of grassroots talents. Speaking to the media in Apapa, Head of Marketing, Seven-up Bottling Company, Mr. Norden Thurston said: “Pepsi is proud to have given Nigerians joy through football, a well known passion of the country, by taking the game to the people in their own backyard where they can express themselves better.” Thurston further stated that “Pepsi Street Cup tournament was able to touch the lives of so many Nigerians because a lot of people see themselves like Victor Moses or Lionel Messi and they want a platform to showcase the talent they have inside, Pepsi Street Cup Tournament became that platform.” The Apapa location saw KC Academy defeat AKP by 3-1 in the finals to cart away half a million Naira grand prize, while AKP settled for the first runner-up’s prize of 250,000 Naira. In the third place match, Lawal Akapo took home 150,000 Naira after defeating The Royal by 1-0. Seun Taro was the Most Valuable Player. While fans in Egbeda location were thrilled as their favourite team, Awori Street FC from Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi smiled home with half a million Naira after defeating G Boys FC by 1-0 at the final. G Boys got consolation prize of N250 000 while the third place winner, Ajao Jimoh also got N150 000 for beating Moving Train FC by 2-0. The Pepsi Street Cup tourney took place in some major cities in Nigeria like Ibadan, Ilorin, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Aba, Benin, Abuja and finally Lagos. Pepsi Street Cup is one of the ways the brand has been touching lives in Nigeria.