Nigeria coach Manu Garba says he will seek to avenge the 1-0 loss against Cote d’Ivoire in Saturday’s CAF U-17 Championship final. Cote d’Ivoire inflicted the Eaglets first-ever loss whether in a friendly or competitive game. Manu said his team were unlucky in the group game against their West African rivals. “The final match against [...]
Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets battle Tunisia for the final ticket of the ongoing CAF U-17 Championship at Grande Stade Marrakech, Morocco today. The Eaglets come into this match as the top goal scoring side with 13 strikes, while The Carthage Eaglets have scored 8 times. In preparing for the semi-final match The Golden Eaglets worked on [...]
Godfrey Gaiya, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Sports, has charged the Golden Eaglets to forget their 7-0 victory over Congo and focus on their semifinals match against Tunisia tomorrow at the ongoing African U-17 Championship. Gaiya said that though the victory was “well deserved’’, the Eaglets should know that they must scale the [...]
Leading telecommunications company, Globacom, has congratulated the U-17 team, the Golden Eaglets for booking a place in the semi finals of the ongoing Africa U-17 Championship in Morocco. The Eaglets, who beat Congo 7-0 in the last Group B match to top the group had earlier defeated Ghana by 6-0 before losing 0-1 to Cote [...]
Assistant coach of the Golden Eaglets of Nigeria, Nduka Ugbade remains optimistic that the country will qualify for the final of the ongoing Africa Under-17 championship in Morocco ahead of Tunisia when both sides meet in Marrakech on Wednesday . The Eaglets returned to winnings ways with an emphatic 7-0 victory over Congo during the [...]
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has, for the umpteenth time warned unscrupulous persons parading themselves as soccer agents from distracting the Golden Eaglets. Scores of agents are in Morocco particularly Marrakech to pluck new cash cows but the NFF has stated unequivocally that they would not have access to the Nigerian youngsters. “For the avoidance [...]
The act of match fixing has gone another level with perpetrators not interested in fixing matches for money. Reports from Lebanon say referees are demanding for sex to fix match. According to Reuters, three Lebanese referees have been charged for accepting sexual bribes from three women to fix an Asian Football Confederation Cup match. They [...]
