When the U20 Africa Cup of Nations event kick-started for Nigeria with a defeat to Senegal many requested questions in regards to the capability of the crew.

Query marks over whether or not the Flying Eagles will clinch qualification for the FIFA U20 World Cup was on the entrance burner.

However in time, Ladan Bosso dragged his crew to the semi-finals and ensured Nigeria was among the many 4 African nations to play on the World Cup.

Nonetheless wanting on the attracts for the FIFA U20 World Cup, one may start to fret once more as Nigeria has been handed a really tough group to navigate.

The flying Eagles have been positioned in group D alongside Brazil, Italy and Dominican Republic.

Whereas Nigeria wouldn’t essentially fear about Dominican Republic, Italy and Brazil are overwhelming favorites to make it out of the group, however the Flying Eagles could fancy their possibilities – to qualify as the very best third-placed crew.

5-time winners, Brazil, have a younger and thrilling squad led by Chelsea-bound Andrey Santos in addition to Vitor Roque whose signature is hotly contested for by a few of Europe’s high sides.

As well as, the Brazilians are in nice kind and have solely misplaced twice – to Chile – and have gone 18 matches unbeaten since these defeats.

Italy however are a compact however efficient crew, additionally they boast of some thrilling skills in European soccer proper now Alessandro Fontanarosa and Mattia Zanotti are registered with Inter, whereas Claudio Cassano and Cristian Volpato are with AS Roma.

Additionally 80 % of their stars are on the books of groups within the Italian top-flight.

Nigeria may give themselves a head begin as they play Dominican Republic first; a victory towards them means the Flying Eagles will simply have to get outcomes towards both Italy or Brazil to advance to the following spherical.

The crew has proven they know learn how to defend, however let’s additionally see if they will assault too, it’s all as much as Ladan Bosso and his boys now.

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