{"id":7220,"date":"2026-05-27T11:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/kaduna-abuzz-with-great-expectation-towards-wedding-competition-for-zumunci-football-academys-secretary\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T10:15:27","slug":"kaduna-abuzz-with-great-expectation-towards-wedding-competition-for-zumunci-football-academys-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/kaduna-abuzz-with-great-expectation-towards-wedding-competition-for-zumunci-football-academys-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna Abuzz With Great Expectation Towards \u2018Wedding Competition\u2019 For Zumunci Football Academy\u2019s Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kaduna-based-Zumunci-Football-Club.jpeg\" data-caption=\"\"><noscript lzl=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kaduna-based-Zumunci-Football-Club-640x423.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kaduna-based-Zumunci-Football-Club-640x423.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kaduna-based-Zumunci-Football-Club-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kaduna-based-Zumunci-Football-Club-636x420.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kaduna-based-Zumunci-Football-Club.jpeg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kaduna-based Zumunci Football Club\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Abakwa area of Kaduna will bet set abuzz this weekend, as grassroots football stalwarts, stakeholders and fans troop out to witness a series of matches organized to mark the wedding of Zumunci Academy\u2019s secretary, Sports247 reports.<\/p>\n<p>The matches will take place under the banner of what has been stylized as \u2018Wedding Competition,\u2019 which is bound to become more exciting with the first semi-final featuring the hosts\u2019 team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Zumunci-fc-100069569747399\/\">Zumunci Football Academy<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/history-beckons-as-nigeria-super-league-hits-semi-final-stage\/\">History Beckons As Nigeria Super League Hits Semi-Final Stage<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The game, which is scheduled to start at 4pm, will see Zumunci tango highly acclaimed crowd pullers, Ado Yalo Football Academy at L.E.A. Primary School, Abakwa-Kaduna, where the hosts\u2019 team trains three times a week.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s game will be followed on Sunday by the second semi-final, which will see two equally popular youth teams from Kaduna go toe-to-toe from 4pm, as City Football Academy battle Hanjen Football Academy for a place in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of both matches will then converge at the same venue on Saturday, June 6th for the grand finale of the mini-competition, which Zumunci\u2019s president, Abdullahi Tanimu said promises to throw up fresh talents from The City of Crocodiles.<\/p>\n<p>He stated in an introductory message ahead of Saturday\u2019s match, \u201cI\u2019m Abdullahi, officer and president of Zumunci Football Club of Kaduna. I have a football academy with good players, young players and talent players.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sports247.ng\/kaduna-abuzz-with-great-expectation-towards-wedding-competition-for-zumunci-football-academys-secretary\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abakwa area of Kaduna will bet set abuzz this weekend, as grassroots football stalwarts, stakeholders and fans troop out to witness a series of matches organized to mark the wedding of Zumunci Academy\u2019s secretary, Sports247 reports. The matches will take place under the banner of what has been stylized as \u2018Wedding Competition,\u2019 which is bound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7222,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/7222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faca.com.ng\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}