Wed 30/April/2025 – 03:34 AM
The Nigerian football was imposed as one of the leading schools in the African continent with the achievements of the Nigeria team, which exceeded the borders of the continent and reached the world, as the team was the second African team to reach the quarter -finals of the World Cup in the United States 1994.
The Nigerian Olympic team crowned the gold gold in the Olympic Games for the first time in the history of the “Talent Continent” in the 1996 Atlanta tournament, and the junior team won the World Cup 5 times, beating all the world’s teams, and of course the youth team had a share in these achievements by crowning the African Cup without 20 years 7 times a record number and qualified for the World Cup final in 1989 in Saudi Arabia and 2005 in the Netherlands.
With this momentum of the achievements that call for pride and confidence at the same time, the Nigeria Youth team is playing the African U -20 Championships, Egypt 2025, after the second lottery placed it at the head of the second group, accompanied by the Arab duo Tunisia and Morocco, which meets them in the first and second rounds at the June 30 stadium in the Air Defense in Cairo on May 1 and 4, and then face the Kenyan team in Cairo also in a meeting that appears easy in the seventh of the same month.
Nigeria qualified a champion
The Nigeria Youth team fought the West Africa qualifiers, which was held in the Togolese capital Lome from 17 to 30 October 2024 with the participation of 7 teams, and managed to lead the second group that included the bilateral neighborhood Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire after losing to the first 0 – 1 in the opening round and then outperformed the second 2-1 in the second and final round.
Green Eagles continued their way to the end and overthrew the Niger team in the semi -finals by winning 3 – 1, then the conclusion was also successful in dropping the Ghana 2-1 team in the final match, and the credit for this victory was for the Norwegian -Norwegian striker, Kabarubo Ariehi, who scored the double winning in the first half.
The most prominent stars in Nigeria
In the West Africa qualifiers, the offensive duo Clinton Givta, the Inimba player, and the professional in the Norwegian Litterrom and scored 6 out of 7 goals for the Nigeria team.
It is expected to continue to shine in the finals, accompanied by a number of their colleagues, headed by Sporting goalkeeper Lagos Eviani Harkort and Pelisa United defender Daniel Pami, captain of the team, and also professionals, Emmanuel Choco, German defender Hoffnim, Kalib Osidico midfielder Paula Croati, in addition to the German striker Besius Benjamin.
Register and not the most wonderful
The Nigeria team crowned the title 4 times in a row in the African Youth Championship with its old regime and the second leg of 1983, 1985, 1987 and 1989, and then continued its successes when it turned to the system of combined courses starting from the 1991 edition in Egypt, as he added the fifth title in 2005 in Benin after its superiority over the Egyptian team 2 – 0 and the sixth in the South Africa 2011 version by defeating Cameroon 3-2 after two additional halves and moved away with the lead The most crowning African teams by three titles for the couple of Egypt and Ghana, when he crowned his seventh title in the 2015 championship in Senegal after defeating the owners of the land with the goal of Bernard Bulbua.