The latest episode of Star Football SuperFans, Nigeria’s
biggest football game show powered by Star Lager, produced a comprehensive thrashing
of the sort, which the show has not seen before. . The latest in a long line of
Star’s customer reward platforms like Star Trek, Star Quest, Star The Winner Is
and Star Shine On Nigeria, Star Football SuperFans is currently in its seventh
week and this episode saw MilaBarca FC, made up of AC Milan and FC Barcelona
Vincent Okorie, Michael Nwosu, Tayo Alimi, Sanusi Kazeem and Uche Agwu dished
out a 4-0 spanking to the hapless Stamford FC made up of Chelsea fans Frank
Okwudili, Adedeji Akinosho, Ayodele Agbede, Chinedu Mbanefo and Ike Ene.
It all started so innocently as host Mozez Praiz
kicked off the first half with Frank and Vincent both missing cautious
10-pointers for Stamford FC and MilaBarca respectively. Even though Kazeem then
scored a 10-pointer for MilaBarca, Adedeji and Chinedu then missed for
Stamford, sandwiched by a Michael miss for MilaBarca. At this point, the game
was looking like it was going to be another closely fought, cagey affair with
both teams missing chances.
How wrong that early impression was! A supremely confident
Tayo stepped up a buried an emphatic 20-pointer for MilaBarca to open the
scoring as the audience exploded. Feeling the pressure, Chinedu and Ike both
missed 20-pointers for Stamford FC after which Uche cockily answered his
20-pointer after remarking “That’s pretty easy” to end the first half at 1-0 to
MilaBarca.
If the first half was a defeat for Stamford FC, the second
half was a total mismatch as MilaBarca ran riot answering all three questions
including two 20-pointers correctly, while Stamford FC vainly tried
to withstand the pressure before caving in to concede a second. With the
full time score at 2-0, Stamford FC went into extra time knowing that only two
goals in extra time would rescue the game for them.
Their extra time performance unfortunately, did not reflect
this. First came the debate on the topic Barcelona remains the best team in the
world but Chelsea is their Achilles heel. Do you agree? Stamaford’s Ike went
first and he seemed to completely misunderstand the concept of a debate, trying
instead to whip the crowd up by performing a series of stage antics including
sitting on the floor and proclaiming “Ah! If Barca win Chelsea make I die!” A
bemused Vincent took the stage for MilaBarca and calmly passed his point across
to an appreciative audience and it was time for Mozez Praiz to announce the
result of the audience vote – another goal for MilaBarca and game over for
Stamford FC! 3-0!
But still the humiliation was not complete as the ‘Show Your
Passion’ segment still remained for Stamford FC to at least regain some pride.
MilaBarca had other ideas as Tayo instead piled on the misery with a masterful
take on Kiss Daniel’s smash hit “Woju” which got the audience to their
feet stomping along in approval. Stamford’s Adedeji could only muster a
half-hearted response from the audience and it was no surprise when Mozez Praiz
took to the stage to announce the result – yet another goal to MilaBarca and a
final score of 4-0!
While Stamford FC would no doubt have been left to rue
their apparent lack of preparation compared to the confident MilaBarca, they
could at least take solace in the fact that they got to go home with the
consolation prize of N100,000. MilaBarca on their part, got to go home with the
grand prize of N1,000,000 and the bragging rights of Superfans of all
Superfans. What a performance from a group of genuine football Superfans!
The Star Football SuperFans TV game show runs for fourteen
weeks and you can be part of it by registering here.
It tests the knowledge of football fans regarding the game, its history,
characters and everything else that makes it Nigeria’s number one sport.
STAR Football SuperFans is the latest in a string of
customer reward platforms by STAR as it continues to reaffirm its industry
leadership position as a customer favourite.
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