Keeper Ige vows to twinkle, shine with Stars

Shooting Stars goal tender, Kola Ige has promised to remain with his Ibadan-based ˜Oluyole Warriors side, but to also strive harder to be one of the stumbling blocks on the path of opposing teams goal-hunters in the Premier League. Speaking during an interview with nigeriasports.com the slim-built goal warden, who was a member of the nation's Under-20 squad to the last FIFA World Youth Championship in Holland, declared:

In football, things do not go right all the time. Sometimes, you win, and sometimes, you lose. In fact, this is a natural occurrence in life but, in spite of this, I hope to do my very best to keep a slate, which would be clean enough to at least see us with a ticket at the end of the current season.

I must confess that, we are not having the best of times for now in our race for a continental ticket; but whatever, we do hope to achieve something at the end.

When there is hope, there is a way and it is left for one to search for the way. It is the inability of one to search and find the right way, which renders one's hope useless or hopeless.

Ige who said he had no regrets over the role of a bench-warmer which he played during the youths global soccer galaxy in the Netherlands, explained that, what was most important to him while on the bench, was the team's victory.

â€œI was not bothered about what role I played at all. What was uppermost in my mind then, was for the team to achieve success. A victory for the team,was for everybody; so I didn't worry over who was in goal.

The Ibadan man's favorite soccer team cannot be said to be enjoying the best of fortunes in the current soccer season; having been booted-out of the 2005 Nigerian FA Cup race and standing some ladders below the top four brackets on the Premier League Table.

It is this unfriendly climate that has woken-up keeper Ige's instinct to sharpen-up his reflexes further, and his resolve not to be a fair weather captain and goal-tender.