Afrigather Sporting Lagos bought their first style of silverware within the south-West derby, however an much more fiery derby awaits sooner or later.
Newly promoted Lagos membership facet, Sporting Lagos, are set to welcome a brand new rival membership within the state in Inter Lagos, Soccernet.ng stories.
Sporting Lagos have loved an unconventional trip to taking part in within the Nigerian Skilled Soccer League. The membership was based in 2022, gaining promotion to the Nigerian top-flight a yr later.
They loved additional success as they swept NPFL defending Champions, Enyimba, to the facet, and defeated their South-West rival, Remo-Stars to win the maiden version of the Naija Tremendous 8 event. With the noisy Lagosians as a mannequin, Inter Lagos was born.
This new Lagos membership is beneath the tutelage and funding of a number of veterans in Nigerian soccer. The membership has a imaginative and prescient to provide the common Nigerian child a proper to dream and a path to achievement with the reward of soccer.
With Nigerian stars like Kelechi Iheanacho, Wilfred Ndidi, Frank Onyeka, and Victor Osimhen proudly placing Nigeria on the worldwide stage, Inter Lagos desires to provide the Nigerian populace an opportunity to develop with them as a membership, with each events mutually reaching their goals.
In a video released by the club, one in every of their co-founders, Lanre Vigo that the creation of the membership was to provide again to the society.
“Lagos has at all times been our dwelling, our heartbeat. We grew up with soccer in our blood, and we knew it was time to provide again to the society.” he mentioned.
Talking additional, he defined the choice and what drove him to create a membership within the largest West-African metropolis.
“Our journey to ascertain Inter Lagos was a dream rooted in tradition and id. We needed to create a soccer membership that Lagosians might name their very own, a membership that displays our Metropolis’s spirit and variety,” He added.
For him, the love of the sport comes first, and in a various nation with separate pursuits like Nigeria, soccer is a unifier.
“At this time, Inter Lagos is greater than only a membership. It’s a supply of delight. It’s a place the place younger expertise can discover their footing and followers can come collectively to have a good time our shared love of soccer.”
Inter Lagos will begin their journey to the highest in Nigeria’s second-tier soccer league, the NNL, and can be able to put a rivalry between them and Sporting Lagos, similar to AC Milan and Inter Milan in Italy.
