This was courtesy of Victor Osimhen’s goal in the 20th minute, only for Croatia to score twice in the second half through Josip Brekalo and Karlo Majic in the 50th and 54th minutes respectively
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Lamoroux broke into the international scene in 2013, after gathering experiences with the league games in Colombia
Second half goals by Chukwudi Agor and Victor Osimhen gave the reigning world champions three points from their first game and immense confidence ahead of a potentially-explosive clash with host nation, Chile, on Tuesday night
The Eaglets began their campaign at Niger 2015 on Sunday against Niger in the traditional green jerseys and the Confederation of African Football has again approved same for the match against Guinea while the goalkeepers would wear complete blue colours
Nigeria’s Under-17 team, Golden Eaglets yet recorded another 3-0 win against Dabo Babes Football Club of Kano in a hard-fought game played on Saturday at the Abraham Ordia Stadium inside the University of Calabar.
The game would be decided at 3pm local time (4pm Nigerian time) at the Stade Municipal before the finale between Benin and Mali
“lt will focus on providing the right orientation for the footballers of the victorious Under 17 side, the Golden Eaglets, on their career progress; drawing a blue print for sustaining Nigeria’s performance at age-grade competitions, among others
“Brazil legend, Pele if you recall played in the World Cup at the age of 17 and we have other world stars that also made their senior national team squad for the World Cup so I don’t think it is bad at all to include these teenage stars in the CHAN squad
Onazi, a member of the silver winning team at the FIFA U-17 World Cup hosted by Nigeria in 2009, believes the idea was aimed at encouraging the players to further aspire for more glory
Intercontinental Dubai Festival City Hotel with a clarion call on the Nigerian youngsters to write their names in gold by winning the FIFA Under-17 World Cup, tagged UAE 2013
Ekweremadu, who led a powerful Nigerian delegation that included Nigeria Federal Road Safety Corps Chief Marshall, Ositadinma Benjamin Chidoka, to the venue of the match, was a very happy man after it ended 2-0 in Golden Eaglets favour and the result qualified the Nigerian cadet national team for the semi-finals of the competition
The Manu Garba-tutored boys fought back as Kalechi Iheanacho, four-goal scorer from the first game against Mexico, floated in a ball from midfield. It was met by Success Isaac, who slammed the ball into the far corner in the 20th minute
Coach of the team, Manu Garba, has prepared his mind for the eventual outcome as he noted that the result of the MRI Scan would not affect the team since there is a pool of players that can be drawn from in case of any eventuality
I think the boys have now seen the wide difference between losing and winning a match,” Amuneke, the 1994 African Footballer of the Year, said in apt reference to the 0-1 loss to Cote d’Ivoire last week
He added: “We are at a delicate stage of this campaign because it’s a winner takes all match and for that reason, there is no need to gamble
The Eaglets are second on the Group B log with three points behind Cote d’Ivoire which has four
“I’m dedicating this victory and two of my goals to him and the two others to my mother