Wednesday 29 January 2014

Flying Eagles gets African Youth Championship opponents

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have been drawn bye to the second round of the 2015 African Youth Championship to be hosted by Senegal.

The six-time African champions will begin their qualifying campaign in May against the winners of the first round match between Kenya and Tanzania.

Should the Nigeria U20 team qualify for the third and final round, they will then face the winners of the second round between Angola and the winners of the first round clash involving Swaziland and Lesotho.

This final qualifier will is scheduled for August.

World Cup-winning Nigeria U17 coach Manu Garba is to be promoted to lead the Flying Eagles, which is expected to be made up of the bulk of the Golden Eaglets from 2013.

Nigeria placed third at the 2013 AYC after they won a record seventh continental title two years earlier in South Africa.

Senegal will stage the 20th AYC between March 8 and 22 with the four top placed teams qualifying for the 2015 FIFA U20 World Cup in New Zealand.

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