“Barau Football Club of Kano is one of the best teams in Nigeria, at the moment”. The Head Coach of the team, Eugene Agagbe stated this in a telephone chat with The VoiceSports tuesday. While describing the sponsorship enjoyed as wonderful, he noted that, “the management is doing very well and when you look at our travel history too, we go for away matches by flight”.
The ex – international who said his dream for Barau FC was to be comfortable among the first five teams, at the end of the 2025/26 NPFL season, disclosed that “when I took up appointment with Barau FC in the beginning of the second stanza of the League, it was 19th position on the log, and because my first objective was to pull the team out of the red zone, I told the press openly that with seven matches I will take the team out of the red zone. I played seven unbeaten matches and climbed up to the 10th position and it was when we lost 0-1 in Port Harcourt to Rivers United and last Weekend, 0-1 against Pillars in Kano that we dropped to the 12th position. But I still thank God because it is with His faithfulness that we have gone this far. That is to say when God wants to do anything for you, He does it in His own way”.
He gave credit to the players for their cooperation and for working hard and remaining focused, explaining that since he took over the club with the players he had inherited he had injected only three new players into the team and no club had been able to score up to two goals against them in a match. “I always dedicate my victory to the Almighty God because I can’t stand anywhere and say this is what I have done knowing that it is God who has been wonderful to Barau FC”.
The former Bendel Insurance FC of Benin mesmerising attacker who described the General Manager of Barau FC of Kano, Dominic Iorfa as a godfather, mentor whom he held in very high esteem and as one who had made him what he was today, also thanked the fans for being very supportive to the team. He said, “the fans are very good and whenever we are playing our matches, they are always out to give us their full support. Kano is one of the best places that fans come out to watch football and when we are playing we see large crowds”.
While commending the organisers of the NPFL led by its Chairman, Gbenga Elegbeleye and the Chief Operating Officer, Davidson Owumi under whose watch the NPFL had been given a facelift and they have also made it the best, stressing that, ” I rate them the best because there is no way that in a week, ten League matches will be played in Nigeria, and a team will not record an away victory. That shows that there is a great improvement”.
“I want to also commend the referees for their wonderful officiating. They have improved so much that when you have a good team, you can secure an away victory. They are doing a perfect job now, not like yesterday, when a team would win a match when it does not deserve it. I pray for them to continue with the good job that they are doing”.
