Manu Garba, the Head Coach of the National U-20 team, the Flying Eagles, on Friday released the names of his 20-man squad for the two-legged friendly match against Morocco.
This was contained in a statement issued by the team’s Media Officer, Samm Audu, in Abuja.
They are goalkeepers: Adamu Abubakar, Abdulazeez Abubakar and Emeka Nwabulu, while the defenders are Aliyu Abubakar, Wilfred Ndidi, Prince Izu Omego, Ifeanyi weke, Mustapha Abdullahi and Zaharaddeen Bello.
The midfielders are Abdullahi Alfa, Akinjide Idowu, Ifeanyi Matthew, Samuel Mathias, Musa Yahaya, Anthony Omaka and Bernard Bulbwa, while the strikers are Taiwo Awoniyi, Alhassan Ibrahim, Suleiman Abdullahi and Abubakar Lawal.
The Nigeria U-20 team will play their Moroccan counterparts in a two-legged friendly match on April 9 and April 11.
Both teams are preparing for 2015 African Youth Championship qualifiers next month.
Awoniyi and Ibrahim each fired a hat-trick in a test game against Lugbe United FC in Abuja on Thursday, which the country’s U-20 team won 12-0.
Nigeria faces the winners of the match between Kenya and Tanzania, while Morocco takes on the winners of the clash between Togo and Equatorial Guinea in May.
The fixture is in continuation of the qualifying tournament to be hosted by Senegal in March 2015.
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