Nigeria’s U-20 men’s team, the Flying Eagles, will on Tuesday depart the country for the 2024 WAFU B U20 Championship in Lome, Togo. The team’s media officer, Sharif Abdallah told The PUNCH on Saturday that 20 of the 27 players in camp will make the trip, adding that no pre-tournament tests have been arranged for the team before commencing defence …

Amid the uncertainty of qualifying for the 2025 U-17 AFCON, Nigeria and hosts Ghana will go head-to-head in the third-place playoff of the ongoing WAFU B U-17 Championship at the University of Ghana Stadium on Tuesday (today). Nigeria and Ghana failed to qualify for the 2025 tournament after they were beaten in the semi-finals. Ghana lost 2-1 to Burkina Faso …

Following their goalless draw in their opening game against Burkina Faso on Thursday, Golden Eaglets claimed a hard-fought 1-0 win over Niger to record their first victory in the WAFU Zone B U-17 AFCON qualifiers. Coach Manu Garba made two changes to the team that started against Burkina Faso, with Oreoluwa Agbenla and Abdul Muiz Adeleke being handed their first …

Burkina Faso held the Golden Eaglets to a goalless draw in their opening game of the WAFU Zone B U-17 Championship at the University of Ghana Stadium, Accra on Thursday evening. Manu Garba opted for a 4-3-3 formation, with Dominic Chinedu named in goal while Sylvester Chika, Daniel Mende, Waris Yunus and Boluwatife Ekishola lined up as the defenders. The …

Golden Eaglets players have all passed the mandatory Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) test ahead of the WAFU B U-17 Championship in Accra, Ghana. The Confederation of African Football on Tuesday declared that all 20 players presented by Nigeria for the championship, which begins on Wednesday, have passed the examination. The Eaglets, who are the defending champions, landed in Accra with …

Coach Manu Garba has picked a final 19-man squad for the WAFU B U-17 AFCON qualifiers, which kick off Wednesday in Ghana. The Golden Eaglets are the defending champions, and they will fly into Accra with the mandate of not only successfully defending the regional crown but also continuing to improve the squad for a great outing at the U-17 …

Newly appointed Golden Eaglets’ coach, Manu Garba, has denied claims that his camp had been thrown into confusion due to results of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging test in his camp. With less than two weeks to the WAFU B U-17 championship in Ghana, reports emanated that a large number of players invited to the Eaglets camp failed the MRI test …

Sixteen-goal Super Falconets of Nigeria will be the favourites when they take on their counterparts from Benin Republic in the second semifinal of the ongoing WAFU B U20 Women Championship in Kumasi on Wednesday. The encounter starts at 6.30 pm local time (7:30 pm in Nigeria), hours after the first semifinal between hosts Ghana and Burkina Faso at the same …

Head Coach of Nigeria’s U20 female football team, Chris Danjuma has called to camp 30 players the Falconets begin preparations on Monday for next month’s WAFU B U20 Women’s Championship taking place in Ghana. Danjuma included some players from his FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup quarter-finalists in Costa Rica as well as some from the bronze medal-winning Flamingos from the …