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Club of Umuahia midfielder, Shedrack Asiegbu says he will donate half of the
N150,000 awarded him for emerging the winner of the “VAT Wonder Goal 6” to the
“SCHOOL OF THE BLIND”, Afaraukwu, in Umuahia North Local Government Area.
Speaking to
www.abiawarriorsfc.com, an obviously elated Asiegbu expressed gratitude to God
for the honour, as well as his coaches for giving him the opportunity and his
fellow players for their support.
“I want to thank God first
for giving me the enablement to play football. I also remember my coaches for
believing in me as well as my follow players without whom it would not have
been easy for me to win the award,” he said.
The Umuopara, Umuahia born
left-footed player won the award after grabbing the highest number of votes in
a poll that also had NPFL top scorer, Stephen Odey of MFM, Lagos and Akwa
United’s Musa Newman for the match Day 25 edition.
Goals netted by the trio
were among the 18 scored on week 25 and at the end of voting, a total of 731
fans voted on the LMC website while another 361 voted on their twitter account.
Out of the 731 voters on
the LMC website 335 preferred Asiegbu’s goal while Newman’s goal attracted 209
votes. Odey’s goal was supported by 187 voters. But twitter users preferred
Odey’s goal giving him 184 of the 361 votes they cast, leaving Asiegbu on 90
and Newman on 87.
So cumulatively, Asiegebu
led the pack by polling 425 of the 1,092 votes cast while Odey came second on 371
whereas Newman got a total of 296 to place third.
Asiegbu thus becomes the
6th VAT wonder Goal winner since it was introduced earlier this year joining
the likes of Ayo Saka of Rivers United of Port-Harcourt, Ubong Friday of Akwa
United of Uyo, Salefu Ochowechi of Remo Stars of Sagamu, FC Ifeanyi Ubah’s
Pascal Seka and Ahmed Usman of Wikki Tourists of Bauchi.
The award carries a reward
of N150,000 but the winner must donate half of the amount to a charity of his
choice located within the state where the club is based.
The VAT Wonder Goal is an
initiative of the League Management Company, organizers of the Nigeria
professional Football League and supported by the Federal Inland Revenue
Service (FIRS) as a social investment to drive tax education and deepen clubs
and community engagement.
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