Five-time world champions, Nigeria flew out of Abuja on Wednesday on their way to Tanzania to take part in the thirteenth Africa Under-seventeen Cup of Nations taking place in that country from the fourteenth to the twenty-eighth of April.
Players and officials were seen off at the airport by Acting President of NFF, Barrister Seyi Akinwunmi, who charged them to do the nation proud by lifting the Under-seventeen AFCON trophy in Dar es Salaam.
The Golden Eaglets secured their ticket to Tanzania after winning the WAFU B Under-seventeen Tournament in Niger Republic in September last year, and will be aiming to be one of Africa’s four flag-bearers at the FIFA Under-seventeen World Cup finals now scheduled for Brazil later this year.
After Sunday’s encounter, the Eaglets will tackle Angola on Wednesday, seventeenth of April and confront Uganda on Saturday, the twentieth of April.
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