He had in the same role in 2023 led the team to win the FIFA U17 World Cup for Nigeria in the United Arab Emirates.
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Nigeria’s hope of a third AFCON title and qualification to the FIFA World Cup was thwarted following the defeat.
Some of them who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the players played the game with fear and conceded first.
The Golden Eaglets and their officials arrived in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria, on Monday.
Nigeria need to avoid defeat against the South Africans to affirm their place in the their Group B.
An own goal by Tochukwu Ogboji as early as the 2nd minute was all the Moroccans, who downed South Africa’s Amajimbo 2-0 on the opening day, needed to make it within a step of booking a spot at this year’s FIFA U17 World Cup.
Favour Daniel struck powerfully past the Zambian goal-tender from a goalmouth melee 14 minutes to the end
The Golden Eaglets flew into Constantine on Tuesday night, after MRI tests conducted on the 26 players in Algiers.
Following complications that arose in the process of securing entry visa into Germany for a planned final training camp in that country, the Nigeria Football Federation opted to send the squad earlier to Algeria for the final build-up.
CAF Executive Committee during its meeting held earlier in April, examined the Article 27 of the U17 Africa Cup of Nations Regulations following the recommendations made by the Youth Organizing Committee and the Medical Organizing Committee.
Ugbade, who has assisted a couple of coaches to win the FIFA U17 World Cup for Nigeria, is in charge this time.
The ex-Flying Eagles Coach gave the charge on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja.
The visitors from Osun state went ahead early in the first half against the run of play as a result of defensive error from the Eaglets, but their joy was short-lived when the five-time world champions equalised almost immediately. The rampaging Eaglets took complete control of the game, scoring two more goals to go into the break at 3-1 advantage.
In the competition’s second semifinal match on Tuesday evening, Burkina Faso edged hosts Ghana 1-0.
Two goals by dead ball expert Emmanuel Michael and a glancing header by Abubakar Idris Abdullahi condemned the U17 boys of Cote d’Ivoire to a 1-3 defeat in the first semifinal of the ongoing WAFU B U17 Championship in Cape Coast, Ghana.
Hosts Ghana, who received a 4-2 plastering by five-time world champions Nigeria on the opening day, can now not earn more than three points with their only remaining game against the Togolese on Friday.
The five-time world champions started off from where the country’s U20 Boys, Flying Eagles left off against Ghana’s Black Satellites at the WAFU B U20 Championship in Niger Republic last month, where the wards of Coach Ladan Bosso hammered their Ghanaian counterparts in the opening match on their way to the title.
In preparation for the upcoming WAFU Cup Championship, the Nigeria U-17 team played TAICO on Thursday in Abuja.
Olakunle confirmed this to a Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria from his base in Denmark on Thursday.
Hammarby IF defeated their Haecken counterparts on 5-4 penalties after the regulation and the extra time ended barren.