Ghana’s Black Starlet have advance to the final of the WAFU Zone B U-17 championship after defeating Golden Eaglets of Nigeria 2-0 in the semi-finals on Tuesday.
The victory also means Ghana have secured qualification for the 2026 U-17 AFCON in Morocco.
Michael Awuli opened the scoring in the 21st minute
Ten minutes after the opening goal Robinho Yao Gavi got on the score sheet to make it 2-0.
To reach the last four of the regional competition, the Golden Eaglets topped their group that has Benin Republic and Burkina Faso.
The coach Manu Garba-led side thrashed Benin Republic 4-1 and drew goalless with Burkina Faso.
In the other semi-finals also played on Tuesday, hosts Côte d’Ivoire edged out Burkina Faso 2-1 to seal the qualification ticket to next year’s U-17 AFCON.
By James Agberebi
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Dissolve the NFF, sack and retire Manu Garba his tactics as a coach are archaic .For How long would you guys want to destroy Nigeria football
Thank Mr Gusau for the good run of football management mainly male National team. He should also relieve Eric Chelle of his job moreover replace him with Sanusi. So that he will succeed in his great bid of bringing Naija soccer rate to the lowest. Infact Manu Garba should be handed over the Senior national team.
If Manu Garba had not won the under 17 world cup before (of course with many old men for that age grade), I would have said 2 back to back under 17 afcon no-show (failures) should make him never to near the national team again.
I’m so happy age cheating in time past has shown why we were 5 times world champions.
MRI scans introduced for Africa (I doubt if other confederates are using it) is the best thing to have happened for very serious African nations.
Now, Ghana is our albatross and bogeymen. But, unlike Nigeria, whose coach “proudly said” many of his players haven’t entered a plane before, Ghana has a great system for their under 17 setup, exposing early their teams to competitions, home and away, especially the last year’s set.
Under 17 world cup by FIFA is now every year until at least 2029.
A serious nation will NOT call up camp one month to a major tournament like wafu B under 17 competition as Nigeria always do and expect to roll past better prepared teams.
The same method will still happen next year meanwhile this set of under 17 will never experience afcon or world cup and it will just waste away again.
NFF, the joke of illpreparation Everytime is on you. Saving money that is not from your pocket instead of setting up structure to feed our senior teams is biting you and ruining our future but you think all is well.
For God’s sake, it’s wafu B competition we are struggling to dominate the region at the cadet level. That’s a red flag and danger for the senior team.
NFF, this is the month I pray you don’t exceed as administrators. After our inevitable senior world cup elimination.
Our football needs salvaging like never before. Now, we know age cheats made us shone at the cadet levels in time past.
It’s still hurting our under 20 such that old men who should have blasted technically younger opponents don’t know the way to the goal because the football fundamentals were extinct in their formative years.
Gusau and co, I know your tenure should expire next year but 2 afcon failures for our under 17 and 2 senior world cup failures means if we keep doing the same thing over again (leaving you for one more year) and expecting a different result (success of our national teams), then we are mad.
As for celebrating WAFCON success, we have always ruled the continent in female football.
If Waldrum had not forced NFF to expose several foreign born stars to the team, Madugu and his crew would have combed our local league for “star players” and maybe falcons would have also ended like many of the other national teams we don’t see result from at crucial stages of their development.
Gusau, please, go with your crew after 14th of October.
We are tired of suffering.
Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Cameroon, South Africa etc now frighten us in both men and women’s football today?
Haba na
Oga Sly, I can assure you that the next camping for the next WAFU competition will take place before a month before the next competition and this tribalistic failure of an NFF president will still appoint a coach from the North. When you put a round peg in square you will always have as outcome!
Bros, e tire me oh. Meanwhile, it will likely result to bad news again and again.
I read somewhere that Manu Garba wants 3 slots from WAFU B (to cover shame and having low ambition) but it will not work and that’s more premium tears, if NFF continue with last minute preparation again next year:
In CAF’s allocation of slots for the U-17 AFCON,
WAFU A with 8 countries have 3 slots,
WAFU B with 7 countries have 2,
North Zone with 5 countries have 3 slots,
the Central Zone with 8 countries have 2 slots,
the Central East Zone with 10 countries have 3 spots
while the South Zone with 12 countries also have 3 slots.
With 16 teams playing the U-17 AFCON, Africa is expanded to produce 10 teams for the world cup.
So, even West Africa is enjoying more chances than other regions by having 5 representatives yet we can’t even show up.
And it appears it will not change for the foreseeable future. Doom is loading
That’s a decay that NFF does not care about.
I watched how Morocco under 20 dispatched Brazil last night and I see future continental dominance in the making because they have football leaders with foresight.
We are hijacking foreign born pros to our national team because we are lazy administrators.
We are forgetting other African nations are leaving us in the dust by taking development seriously.
Past glory might begin to spring up and we go soon become also-rans.
Anyway, wetin concern me? When the cup of incompetence full one day, na we go take the scuff by ourselves but I hope it will not be too late by then because less endowed nations are already using the under 17 competition to bolster their future national teams as they progress to higher levels (under 20) with FIFA and CAF money that will not be embezzled.
We go hear football whinn sha and these administrators will not even be there to take the blame for the setup-to-fail system they laid.
It will continues until nff is disbanded.
Let them be disbanded once and for all, I don’t care if we miss afcon.
We need a factory reset and until nff is being disbanded, nothing new will happen.