Lagos will win medals in hockey -- Coach

Edet Bassey, the Head Coach, Lagos State Hockey Association, said on Saturday he was confident that his teams would win medals at the 18th National Sports Festival (NSF) in November.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the festival, tagged ``Eko 2012'', is scheduled to hold from Nov. 27 to Dec 9.

Bassey told NAN in Lagos that his teams were prepared, expressing optimism that Lagos would not miss out on the medals table in hockey.

``We’ve been training; we are training hard towards winning medals. Definitely, my teams will win medals; gold, silver, bronze, my team will win.

``Deep inside of me, I will say a gold medal and we have all that it takes to win gold. We have all of our players in good shape,'' the coach said.

``Our confidence has nothing to do with Lagos hosting the festival. We are going to approach every match as they come and win them convincingly.

``We have young and viable players who are ready to win so; what we need is to train harder and spend more time to fuse the team together, Bassey said.

NAN recalls that Lagos failed to qualify for hockey in the last festival