Amajor Football Academy has emerged winners of the third edition of the Cohesion Football Tournament, an annual competition aimed at engaging at-risk children in the Surulere and Mushin communities in Lagos State.

The grand finale was held on Thursday, 22 December 2021 at the Union Bank Stable in Surulere, Lagos, featuring 12 teams and over 400 children for the first time since inception.

Winners left the tournament with fantastic prizes, with Amajor Football Academy winning N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) courtesy of Union Bank. The winning team’s coach Onikoyi Kayode won a 1-day stay at the Protea Hotel, Lagos with a partner. The 1st runner up, 11 Angels FC were rewarded with N70,000 (Seventy Thousand Naira). The 2nd runner up, Amata Eagles Football Academy, won N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) and the Most Valuable player; Michael Kingsley also won a cash prize. The Most Valuable player for the last edition tournament; Daniel Omojo also won a full school scholarship from StayInSchoolNG worth N100,000.

Targeted at the development of economically underprivileged adolescents between the ages of 9 and 13, the tournament aims to equip them with the core values, skills and knowledge needed to realize their potentials as future leaders. It is also designed to productively engage and steer them away from crime, substance abuse and other social vices.