As the Nigeria professional league began, Oluyole Warriors (Shooting Stars) fans turned up in their numbers, drumming, singing, and rallying behind their beloved Oluyole Warriors in what was expected to be a thrilling league opener. And indeed, the match lived up to its billing—full of energy, determination, and moments of real quality, but unfortunately lost to Bayelsa United 0-1. The only goals were scored by an attacking midfielder from heading, Kehinde Malik. Lawal happened to be a player who was trained and grew up in Ibadan, playing for Bayelsa United, which is not the only time Oyo state indigenes played against their indigenous club. For the normal understanding of game sort games, it happens throughout the world, but the case of shooting has been getting worse and worse for over a decade. Now, the percentage of indigenous players in the team is too small compared to other state teams.
In my opinion, this has been one of the problems teams are facing because of not doing very well. If we can flash back to an era when some of the shooting players were picked from the streets of the state and even secondary school, this lovely does perfectly well get continental tickets and even the majority of players who represent the Nigeria national team were picked by either shooting stars or Enugu rangers. If I may ask, when was the last time shooting won a league and even qualified for continental compared to that era? Let me just cast our minds back. Mutiu Adepoju was picked from femo scorpions to shooting stars. Both teams are in the same state and
Oluwasegun Abiodun, also from a grassroots football club in Ibadan, joined Shooting Stars with a lot of players like that why such opportunities are not given to youth of the state, just like previous shooting stars. The only thing you will experience is that 90 percent of players playing for the team are not from the state they are from outside. Maybe the management of the team don’t understand the fact that the majority of players from outside may not have the interest of the team in their hearts, because the team does not belong to them and the reality is, if a particular football club was put in place by the state government, the purpose is for the development of the youth of the state.
Please management explore your immediate environment for the development of this great club to gain past glory lay by the late Lekan Salam and others.

Below are results from other states in the country.

Remo Stars F.C. 1 vs 1 Rivers United F.C.

Kwara United 0 Vs 0 Ikorodu City

WarriorsAbia Warriors 1 vs 0 Kano Pillars

Rangers International F.C. 0 vs 0
Kun Khalifat FC

Katsina United F.C. 0 vs 1 Warri Wolves F.C.

El-Kanemi Warriors F.C.
2 vs 0 Bendel Insurance F.C.

Barau 0 vs 0 Enyimba

On Wednesday, 27 Aug
Niger Tornadoes F.C. vs
Nasarawa United F.C. by 16:00 for the remaining part of week 1 matches