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Cote d’Ivoire 2025: NFF invites 30 players for Flying Eagles

Posted : 11 February 2025

The Head Coach of the nation's U-20 boys, Aliyu Zubairu, has called up 30 players to camp in preparation for a two-match tour of Egypt later this month.


Team Administrator, Aliyu Lawal Ibrahim, stated that the seven-time African champions will clash with their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo, the capital of Egypt, in friendly matches scheduled for the 25th and 27th of February.


This year’s Africa U-20 Cup of Nations will be held in Côte d’Ivoire from April 26 to May 18, with the four top-placed finishers qualifying to represent the continent at the FIFA U-20 World Cup finals in Chile, from September 27 to October 19.


The Flying Eagles, champions of Africa in 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2005, 2011, and 2015, won the WAFU-B U-20 Championship held in Lomé, Togo, in October last year to qualify for the finals in Côte d'Ivoire. They defeated Ghana’s Black Satellites 3-1 in the final.


The two-time FIFA World Cup runners-up in 1989 and 2005 came within reach of the semi-finals at the FIFA U-20 World Cup finals in Argentina before losing narrowly to the Republic of Korea after extra time.


Flying Eagles camping in Abuja:


Goalkeepers: Ifeanyi Harcourt (Sporting Lagos); Light Emerenonye (Diamond Academy); Abubakar Rufai (Mavlon FC)


Defenders: Adamu Maigari (El-Kanemi Warriors); Daniel Bameyi (Bayelsa United); Kenneth Igbokwe (Enugu Rangers); Haruna Aliyu (Wikki Tourists); Musa Ademu (Wireless FC); Shamsudeen Muhammad (Mavlon FC); Ibrahim Abdullahi; Shamsudeen Ishaq (Grassrunner FC); Steven Jolomi (Mavlon FC)


Midfielders: Raphael Oyebanji (Shuffle Select FC); Mohammed Ibrahim (Niger Tornadoes); Kizito Opara (Campus Academy); Alabi Sulaiman Jojo (El-Kanemi Warriors); Sulaiman Abubakar (Diamond Academy); Shafiu Adamu (Wikki Tourists); Cletus Simon (Mavlon FC)


Forwards: Bidemi Amole (Real Sapphire Academy); Clinton Japhet (Enyimba FC); Matthew Chukwusa (Morack Academy); Nasiru Salihu (El-Kanemi Warriors); Divine Olisha (Fostar Academy); Jerry Salami (Aspire Academy); Oluwaseyi Akinfenwa (Real Sapphire Academy); Shola Adelami (Ikorodu City); Abdulrahaman Ishaq (Sport Supply Academy); Ezekiel Anthony (Aspire Academy); Sodiq Olalekan Adewunmi (Jaguar Sports FC)

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