A costly mistake by Ebenezer Harcourt saw Côte d’Ivoire net a late goal to beat Nigeria’s Flying Eagles 1-0 in the final of the WAFU B U-20 tournament on Wednesday night.
Côte d’Ivoire were awarded a free-kick late in the game which Harcourt came out to make a routine catch.
Unfortunately, the ever reliable Harcourt dropped the ball in front of an Ivorian player who reacted quickest by slotting the ball into the net.
Harcourt played a key role as he made a save in the penalty shootout win against Niger Republic in the semi-finals.
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In the third-placed encounter played earlier on Wednesday, hosts Ghana defeated Niger Republic 2-0.
The WAFU B U-20 tournament is part of the Flying Eagles’ preparation for the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile.
This year’s edition will start on 27 September amd end 19 October.
The Flying Eagles are in Group F with Colombia, Saudi Arabia and Norway.
Coach Aliyu Zubairu-led side will open their campaign against Norway on September 29.
Their second group game comes up on October 2 against Saudi Arabia then three days later they will take on Colombia.
At their last outing at the World Cup in Argentina, the Flying Eagles reached the quarter-finals before losing 1-0 to South Africa after extra-time.
By James Agberebi
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This set of flying eagles are the worst I have seen in years they seems to lack the spark and talents of a nigerian junior national team
They did very well, the team parades alot of talents, from the diffence to the midfield,
They just need a good and more talented attacker to put more balls in the net, they are no where a worse team unless we want to insult the entire Africa teams because they are currently the best youth team in Africa South Africa was lucky to beat them in the last under 20 afcon, they were the better team, similar to this particular game, they were better than cotedvoir, this team will pick something from the coming worldcup, nothing less than bronze, that holiseh is a future super eagle number 10