{"id":22744,"date":"2023-07-24T10:52:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/?p=22744"},"modified":"2023-07-24T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T09:57:20","slug":"julius-aghahowa-happy-with-insurance-resurgent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/julius-aghahowa-happy-with-insurance-resurgent\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Aghahowa Happy With Insurance Resurgent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Olayinka Elebute And Tolulope Abegunde<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Former Nigeria International Julius Aghahowa, who also played for the Insurance of Benin in the late 90&#8217;s has expressed his happiness for the great turn around the team is experiencing winning the FA Cup after over 43 years in the wilderness in a chat with Olayinka Elebute of Gongnews.net the former Esperance of Tunisia player said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m particularly happy for Insurance of Benin,\u00a0 because it&#8217;s been a long time coming and they have really worked hard this season at some point they had unbeaten run about 26 games unbeaten\u00a0 last season and I think it was at the Super 6 that they broke that run so but winning the FA Cup is a consolation for all their hard work for all the things they&#8217;ve gone through he stated.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-22746\" src=\"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230724-WA0012-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gongnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230724-WA0012-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gongnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230724-WA0012.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">While urging them to show more of what the team can do when they go on the continent, &#8220;and this is an opportunity to show what they can do when they go and represent Nigeria when it comes to the continental tournament I think is a good one for them. They just have to give their best on the continent they have all it takes and with the support of the state government I expect them to do well and make us proud, he continued.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also revealed the team ordeals in the past, &#8221; they have really gone through a lot, there was a time they gain promotion to the Premier League and then they got relegated at the same time and so now they&#8217;re back and then they won the FA Cup this is a testament to show that when you work hard for something when you put in your work, dedication and you will get what you really deserve.\u00a0 Aghahowa concluded.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Insurance last won the FA Cup in the 80&#8217;s and they returned to their glorious era beating Rangers of Enugu by a lone goal to claim the FA Cup after 43 years, but the team last won a major trophy in 1995 when they won the WAFU Cup.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It will be recalled that Insurance top the group A of the abridge League playing 18 games without losing a game,\u00a0 but lost their unbeaten runs in the Super 6 coming\u00a05th,\u00a0 playing 21 league games and 5 unbeaten games in the FA cup with clean sheets,\u00a0 the team is been coached by former National team coach Coach Monday Odigie<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Photo Credit: Ayoola Adeleke<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olayinka Elebute And Tolulope Abegunde Former Nigeria International Julius Aghahowa, who also played for the Insurance of Benin in the late 90&#8217;s has expressed his happiness for the great turn around the team is experiencing winning the FA Cup after over 43 years in the wilderness in a chat with Olayinka Elebute of Gongnews.net &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.7 - 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