Everton, Obaje win NPFL-LBA August

FC Ifeanyiubah head coach, Rafael Everton and Wikki Tourists striker, Godwin Obaje, have been named Manager and Player respectively for the month of August in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) -League Bloggers Awards (LBA).
Everton becomes the first South American to win the prestigious monthly award as a manager in the NPFL.
The FC Ifeanyiubah coach was picked ahead of El-Kanemi Warriors trainer Ladan Bosso as well as Solomon Ogbeide of Sunshine Stars and Paul Aigbogun of Enyimba for the month under review.
The Brazilian navigated FC Ifeanyiubah through difficult fixtures against fellow title contenders, Enugu Rangers and Wikki Tourists, defeating both teams 2-0 and 1-0 respectively and that feat had in between a 1-0 win at Warri Wolves having early lost 0-2 at Plateau United. This meant that Everton helped the Nnewi club earn nine points
in four matches.
Ogbeide fell short from clinching the manager’s award as Sunshine Stars took eight points from 15 in August.
Aigbogun and Bosso, unbeaten with Enyimba and El-Kanemi respectively in August, took seven and eight points in that order.
Obaje has now been named the NPFL-LBA Player of the Month for the second time this season after first winning the award in May. The league’s top scorer netted three goals in August, including a brace against MFM FC as Wikki won 2-1.
He then netted another goal that could only help his club to win a point at home against Lobi Stars in a 1-1 draw on the last day of August.
Samad Kadiri of Sunshine Stars, Ibrahim Ajani of 3SC and FC Ifeanyiubah’s Chijioke Alakwe scored two goals apiece and their efforts proved inadequate to knock off Obaje’s individual input for August.
Everton and Obaje will be presented their awards later this month.