The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria Are Unlucky Losers at House
The internet hosting correct for the 2009 FIFA U-17 World was awarded to Nigeria by the football governing human body, FIFA in 2007 at her more common congress held in Korea. The level of competition will be the third FIFA structured level of competition to be hosted by Nigeria soon after the profitable hosting of the FIFA U-20 Championship in 1999. The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will be defending the title they gained at Korea on property soil, but the preparing of the cadet Environment cup was dealt a severe blow, when the Nigeria Soccer Federation sacked Coach Henry Nwosu, who was then in demand of the crew, and introduced the appointment of Mentor John Obuh and Monday Odigie as Assistant.
The crew suffered even more blow, when a bulk of the players have been dropped thanks to benefits of the Magnetic resonance Imaging check (MRI) test carried out on the workforce. The set again did not nevertheless deter Coach John Obuh, who was nonetheless able to set together a bunch of gifted footballers from soccer academies scattered over Nigeria. The levels of competition was played in eight specified metropolitan areas: Enugu, Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna, Calabar Ijebu-Ode, Kano and Bauchi.
The competitiveness which was held from on the 24th of October 2009 by way of November 15th 2009 observed the Golden Eaglets commencing the defence of their trophy with a spectacular 3-3 attract with Germany, just after the Germans had absent 3- up. In their next group match, the young Eaglets inflicted a 1- defeat on a hapless Honduras aspect. The spherical of 16 tickets was secured in their final group match from Argentina with a convincing 2-1 defeat of the South Us residents.
More drama was to unfold in the round of 16, where the Golden Eaglet were paired with the inexperienced New Zea-land. The match finished in a 5- bashing of the New Zea-land. The Golden Eaglet have been not performed yet, as they defeated the hard fighting boys from South Korea 3-1 in the Quarter finals, to set up a semi-final clash with the enterprising Spaniards who were being spoiling for a revenge of the 3- defeat inflicted on them in 2007. The match was settled in regulation time with a Stanley Okoro dazzling objective and tremendous sub Emmanuel Sanni brace to give the Golden Eaglet a convincing 3-1 victory. The Golden Eaglets were just a stage away from making heritage as the only state to host and get the U-17 trophy as defending champion.
In the Last performed at the superb Abuja countrywide stadium, Nigeria failed to benefit from the many chances that came her way in an entertaining encounter with Switzerland. They ended up to pay out for their quite a few misses, when Swiss striker Heris Seferovic scored the only aim of the match by means of a free of charge header in the 63rd moment of the epic come across.
