The Flying Eagles of Nigeria defeated Water FC of Abuja 1-0 in their first friendly game on Wednesday.
Bayelsa United striker Rabiu Abdullahi scored the winning goal for the multiple African champions.
The Flying Eagles are preparing for the WAFU B U-20 Championship which will hold in Togo next month.
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The team started preparations for the competition last week Thursday.
Aliyu Zubairu was appointed head of the former African champions last month.
They are expected to play more friendly games ahead of the WAFU tournament.
The WAFU Championship will decide the team that will represent the zone at the 2025 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Stop playing your agency teams, play against talented fellow u20 and u17 teams like BLFA and Madiba fc. Nigeria football will not grow if we don’t stop shady ways in our doing. Madiba or BLFA will open the eyes of the true talents in Nigeria but these clowns always play against water fc and yum yum sides and end up carrying mediocre players to disgrace us against Senegalese.
Thumbs up brotherman Chima. The Flying Eagles will do well. Heaven bless them. Lolzzzz
Couldn’t Agree more @Chima E.
WATER KUKU NO GET ENEMY.
You are playing friendly match with water? Is this a good enough preparation for our boys to face the challenges ahead?
Bro they are playing against their friends and family teams and also using their agency players to parade as Nigeria u20. The real talents are brokies so they never give them a chance to be seen. For the past few years ago after Manu Garba assembled one of the best u17 team, the latest teams we see are a product of corruption. Children and family of corrupt officials taking over football. Abokis parading as coach all over the place. There’s no worst time than now in Nigeria football. We have seen u20 players from Remo, BLFA, Ojodu city and Madiba seal lucrative deal with Inter milan of Italy and some top teams in France. Yet these talents are never spotted by these aboki coaches but solid foreign clubs can actually scout them. These u20 team will collect 7-0 from BLFA, Madiba or even Ojodu city. NFF is a fraud that if not apprehended they will destroy our football even more.
it even gets worse when a good one is eventually scouted,taken to camp only to be replaced by someone else because the “agent” paid so-so and so amount after they(NFF) will tell you and I that he failed MRI when its actually that he didn’t meet up financially even if the coach likes the player, they’ll tell him to pick theirs otherwise he’ll be sacked.
I’ve experienced that first hand with some of my boys. Its a rather unfortunate situation in our football.