Rangers to continue preparation for new season with the Coal City International Cup
Multiple award-winning technical adviser of the reigning NPFL champions, Rangers International F.C, Coach Fidelis Ilechukwu says he would be using the multi-million-naira, Coal City International Cup to continue his preparation for the new season.
The pre-season tournament that would have teams from Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Benin Republic, Brazil and top teams from the NPFL, do soccer battle for the ultimate prize of fifty million naira with each participant earning an appearance fee of five million naira in every match played.
The grand opening ceremony is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at Villa Toscana Hotel, Enugu while the opening game takes place on Thursday, August 1, 2024 inside the main bowl of Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu, with Shooting Stars Sports Club (3SC) of Ibadan trading tackles with Sierra Leone’s F.C Kallon with kickoff fixed for 4:00 pm.
The second match of the day slated to kick off by 7:00 pm will see Rangers International tackle Enyimba in an Oriental Derby.
Coach Ilechukwu said ahead of the pre-season tourney, ‘It is a good thing to have such quality teams in a preseason tournament and it will to a very large extent, help us monitor the players that we have registered for both the continent and domestic challenges.
‘Like I have been saying, we are re-building as the structure we had earlier set up has been shaken a bit and we have some new talents that need to be blooded into our playing philosophy. I believe that we shall get good results from the preseason games.’
