Emeka Ebere scored a hat trick and there was also\u00a0 a brace for\u00a0Suleiman Abdullahi. Other goal scorers for the Eaglets were Chinedu\u00a0Madueke, Kelechi Nwakali, Orji Promise and Gavi Thompson.<\/p>\n
“The match was just another opportunity to test and evaluate our\u00a0players as we build towards the World Cup in Chile but we are not\u00a0bothered with the score -line,” noted Eaglets coach Emmanuel\u00a0Amuneke.”It was good these boys came around from overseas and try to possibly find their way into the team and we are going to\u00a0sit down and evaluate them.”<\/p>\n Team Nigeria UK, according to Coach David Doherty, would hopefully put\u00a0up a better performance in the next game fixed for the same venue on\u00a0Thursday, adding that some of his boys were not at their best since this\u00a0was their first time in the country.<\/p>\n Dignitaries at Wednesday’s<\/span><\/span> match were NFF 2nd Vice President\/LMC Chairman, Mallam\u00a0Shehu Dikko NFF Executive Committee members Alhaji Ibrahim Musa Gusau, Chief Felix Anyansi-Agwu, Alhaji Ahmad Kawu and\u00a0Alhaji Ahmed Yusuf ‘Fresh\u2019. Others are NFF Deputy General Secretary, Dr.\u00a0Emmanuel Ikpeme, NFF Technical Director, Coach Shaibu Amodu and U-23 Team Head Coach Coach Samson Siasia, as well as\u00a0former international players and Player’s Union leaders Dahiru Sadi and Austin Popo.<\/p>\n Wednesday’s<\/span><\/span> match was handled by Referee Odey Benjamin and he was\u00a0assisted by Peter Bwamba and Hulda Nkwocha while Hannah Elaigwu served as\u00a0reserve referee.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) has appointed FIFA -licensed referee Abdullahi Shuabu to officiate Thursday’s<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 match\u00a0between the two teams. Idowu Adepoju and Bose Momoh have also been Golden Eaglets, Nigeria’s U-17 team, recorded a flattering 9-0 win\u00a0against Team Nigeria UK a.k.a soaring Eaglets at the Abuja National\u00a0Stadium on Wednesday. Emeka Ebere scored a hat trick and there was also\u00a0 a brace for\u00a0Suleiman Abdullahi. Other goal scorers for the Eaglets were Chinedu\u00a0Madueke, Kelechi Nwakali, Orji Promise and Gavi Thompson. “The match was just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[116,144],"class_list":["post-14019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golden-eaglets","tag-featured","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.thenff.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NFF](\"http:\/\/www.thenff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Dikko-Teamnaija.jpg\")
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