Confederation of African Football (CAF) has congratulated the Flying Eagles of Nigeria after they edged Dominican Republic 2-1 in their opening Group D game at the U-20 World Cup.
Debutant Dominican Republic took the lead against the Flying Eagles in the 23rd minute through Edison Azcona from the penalty spot.
The Flying Eagles were back on level terms on 31 minutes following an goal by Guillermo de Pena.
With 20 minutes left to play Samson Lawal scored the winner to give Ladan Bosso team the perfect start to the competition.
“Congratulations to Nigeria on their win in their U-20 World Cup opening game,” CAF wrote on Twitter.
“Another big night on the world stage for the Flying Eagles.”🙌
The Flying Eagles will return to action on Wednesday, May 24 when they will take on Italy in their second group game.
The Italians also kicked started their campaign with a 3-2 win against Brazil.
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Why is Completely Sports not sharing news about our girls performance at under 20 WAFU competition.
Our girls beat Niger yesterday.
Let’s also celebrate our girls please
The scoring problem of this team is still very much glaring. So if not for the own goal and the school boy error by that Dominican defender who could not properly execute a back pass, these eagles would not have scored?Very pathetic!
A goal Is a goal it doesn’t matter how the goals are scored. The very same error goals have been scored against either eagles or eaglet or flying eaglesband no one complain about it,
Senegal na only africa dem fit dey buga and play, gcarry dem enter global stage nau dem go alays falter, dem go dey play nonsense same as other african teams except 9ja. Japan nak dem yesterday 1:0, they might not escape dat group if care is not taken. As bad as e wan be, 9ja must always atleast pass group stage for most youth tournaments. Thats y I’mso pained that Ugbade’s team didn’t qualify for d worldcup, that team with some addition of quality players like Bosso has done would’ve been a world beater. Those boys were very talented and played some entertaining football albeit they couldn’t find d back of d net but not for lack of trying. I personally think d likes of Manu Garba and Amuneke should be issued a long term contract with the mandate of developing our u17, u20 and u23 mens team. They will need to go overseas to get some additional training but those are the coaches we need to move our football forward. . Just a thought