Nigeria won a historic Olympic Gold in 1996 and were beaten by Argentina in the Gold medal match at Beijing 2008
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Hosts Brazil and defending champions Mexico will be among the 16 teams to be drawn into four groups of the competition, which will be staged in August
Osimhen, 17, played a big part as Nigeria upstaged hosts Senegal to reach this final when his header into the box led to confusion between the goalkeeper and defender, leading to a penalty from which Oghenekaro Etebo made hay
The Nigerians arrived in Senegal in the early hours of Thursday for their campaign to pick a ticket for the football event of next year’s Rio Olympics in Brazil
The ever-smiling Ajayi arrived Banjul, capital of The Gambia aboard a Royal Air Maroc flight at about 4am(5am) in Nigeria to the waiting arms of Team Secretary, Sirajo Hassan, who took him to the camp
It was watched by a handful of spectators, including the President of the Gambian Football Federation, Lamin Kaba Bajo; Secretary General of the Gambian FF, Abass Bah; the President of Real de Banjul, William Abraham; and Tunde Adelakun, the Special Assistant to the President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick
The entire arena went into frenzy on when the players and officials sighted Nigeria’s hip hop act, Innocent Idibia, also known as 2Face Ibidia, at the airport
Nigeria’s Under-23 national team Head Coach, Samson Siasia, has heaped praises on his players for showing resilience to edge Congo…
Nigeria’s Dream Team will be one of the eight finalists at the 2nd African U-23 Championship in Senegal later in…
Both teams tied 0-0 in the first leg in Abuja and it will be all-systems-go at the National Heroes Stadium, Lusaka from 3pm Zambia time (2pm Nigeria time) on Sunday, as both sides seek a spot in the Men’s Football Tournament of the All-Africa Games, now scheduled for September in Brazzaville
He however frowned at the attitude of Flying Eagles Captain, Musa Mohammed, who took permission to leave the camp to go and collect his international passport in Lagos and has failed to return to camp
Meanwhile, due to club duties, two of the invited foreign-based pros, Paul Onauchu Ebere of Midtjyllan FC Denmark and Aminu Umar of Osmanlispor FC of Turkey, could not honour the invitation as their clubs refused them to be part of the team
The Dream Team pole-axed Gabon’s U-23 team 6-1 on aggregate in the first round and will host the Zambians, who sailed through without kicking a ball following the withdrawal of Madagascar, for a place at the Men’s Football Tournament of the Games coming up in Congo-Brazzaville in July
After breakfast on Friday, Siasia said that from the calibre of players at his disposal, he is not expecting less than outright victory