Maduakor commends Kano Pillars for emerging 2025 Amputee Footballl Champions
President of Amputee Football Federation of Nigeria, Paul Maduakor has commended Kano Pillars Amputee Football Club for winning the 2025 edition of Amputee football tournament.
Kano Pillars by defeated hard fighting Phoenix Amputee FC of Lagos 3-1 in the final decided on Saturday, 19 October 2025 at the package ‘B’ of the MKO National Stadium Abuja.
Maduakor, while delivering his address after the keenly contested match, praised all the teams that featured in the championship for the quality of skill displayed throughout the tournament.
He gave special commendation to Kano Pillars players for displaying exceptional skills that saw them emerged champions thereby winning the trophy back-to-back.
Maduakor expressed optimism in Nigeria making strong statement at the Amputee World Cup, based on what he saw at the championship.
” I’m highly impressed with the standard of play and emergence of new talents from teams like Giidagba Fc and Kaduna FC. It shows that Amputee Football has bright future in Nigeria”, he said.
Maduakor also lauded the Kano State Government for their continuous support to persons with disabilities, especially Amputee football players and pleaded with them to continue in that direction.
For the newly discovered talents from various clubs that participated in the championship, he assured that the National coaches have taken note of them for future national assignments..
The president also gave kudos to the organisers for packaging a hitch free championships.
