Nigeria’s representatives in this year’s CAF African Schools Football Championship, National Grammar School, Nike, Enugu State, had a fantastic start with a 4-0 victory over their Togolese counterparts as the WAFU B Zonal Finals of the championship began in Lome on Thursday.
National Grammar School emerged as champions of a national championship held in the Federal Capital, Abuja, from the 2nd to the 9th of November, featuring a total of 11 teams from nine states of the federation.
Teams from Yobe, Enugu, Plateau, Borno, Oyo, Ogun, Taraba, and Kwara States, as well as the FCT, participated in the U15 competition. In the female category, FOSLA Academy, the stellar football+education project of former NFF President Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi, emerged champions of a three-team competition and is representing Nigeria in the female event.
Representatives from Nigeria, Benin Republic, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, and host Togo are converging in Lome for the four-day WAFU B zonal finals that will end on Sunday, with matches at the Stade Municipal de Kegue.
The winner in Lome, where the competition is played in a round-robin format, will fly WAFU B’s flag at the continental finals slated for April 2024.
The zonal finals are being staged alongside the WAFU B Congress, attended by the President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, and the General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi.
Over 800,000 boys and girls from 28,000 schools across 44 countries are taking part in this season’s CAF African Schools Football Championship, which is the brainchild of the President of the Confederation of African Football, Dr. Patrice Motsepe. Billionaire industrialist Motsepe is committed to contributing to the development of Africa’s next generation of football talent and future leaders, with several noble developmental programs incorporated into the Football Championship.
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