Orange Cameroon Launch Pioneer Holiday Championship In Bamenda, Cash Prize FCFA 1 Million, A Multimedia Center For Community

Orange Cameroon after sponsoring so many sporting activities organized in the North West Region over the years has decided to launch an Orange Cameroon Holiday championship first edition in three of Cameroon’s cities thus Yaoundé, Douala and Bamenda. This Holiday championship with just four teams participating in this pilot face in the North West Region from Bamenda and Bafut has lots of prizes with a Cash prize of FCFA 1 million plus a multimedia center for the victor community that would be managed by the local Council.

According to the communication officer of the organizing committee, Yannick Tankeu who made this revelation in Bamenda said this is in line with the corporate social responsibilities of Orange Cameroon. As to how the participating teams were selected for this pilot face given that there are so many other football competitions is a culture at this time of the year. Yannick Tankeu intimated that in as much as not all the teams were to selected for this pilot face, the four teams selected especially those from Bafut performed marvelously last in a competition sponsored by the Council. This Orange Holiday Championship is said to for Students below 29 years only and not professionals.

The participating teams were scheduled play time through a ballot draw at the Regional office of Orange Cameroon. Abakwa II FC would be locking horns with Bafut II FC at semifinal one on August 8^th and Abakwa I FC would lock horns with Bafut I FC on August 9^th and the finals and third position matches shall take place today August 15^th at the Bamenda Municipal Stadium. All participating teams would take home handsome prizes thus: Victor gets FCFA 1million cash plus an Orange Multimedia center for the community while finals runner up takes home FCFA 500.000. The third position grabs FCFA 250.000 while fourth position gets FCFA 200.000. The best fan club cheering the teams as they play right to finals shall be rewarded FCFA 50.000. Selection of this fan club shall be determined by the number of members and originality in animation. In order to ensure that the teams meet the criteria of players filed in, Orange Cameroon has involve officials of FECAFOOT and other football technicians and on the days of play at the municipal stadium the forces law and order shall be present to ensure security as anybody entering would be thoroughly searched. The Coordinator of Abakwa I and II FC, Takang Federick (BBC Reporter) holds that his teams are well prepared for the matches and surely would take home the Orange trophy.

By Ignatius Nji