| NIGERIA'S U-23 TEAM |
Nigeria’s U-23 football
team coached by Samson Siasia have qualified for the football event at next year’s Olympics taking
place at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil after beating Senegal today, Wednesday by one
goal. The goal against the host, Senegal also qualified Nigeria for the finals
of the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations. The Nigerians played without the team
captain, Azubuike Okechukwu who was on suspension for a second yellow card in
last Saturday’s match against Algeria, also not featured was Stanley Dimgba but
the team still won as assured by its coach.
The first half of the match
had the Senegalese team dominating the Nigerian team but losing a penalty to
the safe gloves of Emmanuel Daniel, the goalkeeper. The Nigerians, however, had
the second half of the match in their control and gaining a penalty too in the
process. Nigeria converted the penalty taken by Etebo Oghenekaro into the only
goal of the match.
The Nigerians are now billed
to play in the competition’s final on Saturday in Senegal’s capital, Dakar and
hopefully, the team would not go home empty handed as promised by coach Siasia.
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