By Maxwell Kumoye with additional agency report
The UBTH Sports Complex erupted in colour and excitement on Friday as the 9th edition of the UBTH Interprofessional and Veterans Football Championship, better known as the electrifying CMD Cup, kicked off in grand style, reaffirming its status as one of Benin City’s most cherished sporting traditions.
Honourable Amadin Desmond Enabulele, Executive Chairman of the Edo State Sports Commission, set the tone for a festival of football and fellowship.
Though represented by Honourable Frank Ilaboya, the Commission’s Executive Director, Enabulele’s presence was unmistakable, his message clear, loud, and energizing, Edo is doubling down on community sports, and the CMD Cup remains a shining example of what grassroots investment can achieve.
Through a statement issued by his Media Officer, Edoko Wilson Edoko, Enabulele showered praise on UBTH Chief Medical Director, Professor Idia Ize-Iyamu, applauding her unwavering leadership in sustaining a competition that has grown into a hub of interprofessional unity.
He lauded Professor Ize-Iyamu for keeping the CMD Cup “alive, vibrant, and impactful,” describing it as “a model tournament that blends competition, unity, and interprofessional bonding.”
As expected, the 2025 CMD Cup returns with its signature diversity, corporate outfits, government institutions, schools, veterans’ sides, and sports clubs all vying for glory, bragging rights, and a place in Benin’s sporting folklore.
With a rich bouquet of honours on the line for the:
✓ MVP
✓Top Scorer
✓ Best Goalkeeper
✓ Best Coach, and the coveted Fair Play Award, teams are already buzzing with ambition.
And with Enabulele’s strong assurances of bigger, better support for grassroots sports echoing across the arena, this year’s edition is primed to deliver fireworks, friendship, and football at its finest.
The CMD Cup is back and Benin is ready for magic on the turf.
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