Nigeria Pitch Award Set To Hold On December 22:: All Nigeria Soccer

The award, which is Nigeria’s longest-running football awards, was formerly set for March due to the lockdown brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic the event was forced to be postponed.

“The seventh award ceremony was to honor deserving award winners for the year, 2019. Unfortunately, the circumstances engineered by attempts to halt the spread of Covid-19 forced a major postponement of the event.

“This year’s award ceremony will mark the first award ceremony which will be held in Lagos. As organizers and as a responsible corporate citizen, we are mindful of the need to observe all government laid down Covid-19 protocols in order to keep our guests safe.

“This is why physical attendance will be restricted as many nominees including members of the Super Eagles will follow the event online.”

Leicester City superstar Wilfred Ndidi will be locking horns against Napoli striker Victor Osimhen and Manchester United forward Odion Ighalo for the King of the Pitch award while for the Queen of the Pitch award Barcelona star Asisat Oshoala is leading the race for the accolade against Henan Jianye star Onome Ebi and Paris FC star Chiamaka Nnadozie.

Coupled with that, Goal’s journalist Samuel Ahmadu also made the list for the Football Journalist of the Year award and will be hoping to clinch his second award back to back.

At the 2018 edition which was held in Port Harcourt, NFF boss Amaju Pinnick delivered praises to the award managers.

Pinnick said: “We are very proud of you even if we don’t tell you; we are indeed very proud of you. Organizing an award is not an easy job.

“We will not only associate with you, we will also do one or two things for you.

“The awards have been running for the past few years and they [organizers] have been very consistent.”