Nigeria’s Flying Eagles suffered a humiliating 4-1 defeat to Burkina Faso in the final of the WAFU B U-20 championship on Sunday, completesports.com reports.
Burkina Faso have now secured the sole qualification to the 2027 U-20 African Cup of Nations in Ghana.
The U-20 AFCON will also serve as qualifiers for the 2027 U-20 World Cup which will be co-hosted by Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan.
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It was a dominant performance by Burkina Faso who took control of the final from the opening whistle, scoring three goals within the first 15 minutes.
Every effort by the Flying Eagles to stage a comeback was futile as Burkina Faso added a fourth with Abdul Maikaba’s side getting a consolation goal.
Both teams had met in their final group match which Burkina Faso won 2-0.
By James Agberebi
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Failure upon failure. Does anyone needs to remind us of the nff acronym again NFF ( Nigeria fatal failure)
NFF Onigbese – they have failed woefully. They continue to fail woefully.
The failure na gbas gbos today. Gbas gbos. Dem give us left, right, center. We are dazed. Our heads are spinning.
Super Falcons failure, now this failure of the U20 team.
The Super Falcons failure is particularly bad, but something good comes out of it.
Awon Onigbese will not be able to share FIFA money that we would have received if we qualified for the world cup.
Hip, hip, hip, hurrah!
Gusau, ntoi! NFF Onigbese board, ntoi! Yeye technical director, ntoi!
Dem no go see shingbain from FIFA money.
$1 wey wash, wey don tear no go gum dem.
If we manage to qualify via the playoffs, hopefully it will be a new NFF president and a new board that will be on sit. Enough is enough.
NFF, CAF and FIFA. These 3 names are enemies of football. No wonder they are all on damage control for love of money. So major nations like Nigeria and CIV will be missing from Afcon 20 and World Cup?What a Year abi What a Month infact what a Day!!!
Its not fair for just one team to qualify from a contest that have many strong footballing nation.
This south african led caf motsepe should be removed from office that man have systematically damage african football,how can the football powerhouses in football cancel themselves out before afcon,we must protest against this format that is desroying west african football at youth level we dont need a south african as head of caf fire motsepe now.
In his last press conference, he said he’d not contest for CAF presidency, a third term, when his tenure ends in 2029.
Make e no be say Gusau or pinnick dey eye the position na why them still dey suck our football dry
When you have a set of inept football administration, from NFF, to CAF. How on earth will West Africa with over 20 nations be represented by just 2 countries from that region and South Africa with just Six Countries field is same amount of representatives. What a shame!!