Nigeria get foes ahead of 2023/2024 CAF African Schools Football Championship

By Oyediji Oluwaseun Babatunde 

The draw for the 2023/2024 CAF African Schools Football Championship has been made with the Nigerian boys and girls team knowing their opponents ahead of their maiden participation in the tournament.

In the boy’s category, Nigeria is in Group A alongside Togo and Ghana.

Group B houses Burkian Faso and Benin Republic.

For the girls category, the same groupings were applied with Nigeria in Group A to face Togo and Ghana at the zonal level.

The WAFU-B zonal tournament is scheduled in Lomé, Togo,  from November 23 to 26, 2023.

Six teams from West Africa Zone B (WAFU-B) will battle it out to determine the winner and the zone representative at the main tournament in April 2024.

This will be the second edition of the Championship which commenced last year (2022).

Nigeria didn’t participate in the maiden edition of the championship which would discover future stars for the nation and the continent.

Oluwaseun Oyediji

Oluwaseun Babatunde Oyediji is a multi-media sports journalist with over 10 years experience in Information Communication Technology (ICT), women's football, and beach soccer reportage.The prolific writer is the Media Assistant to Nigeria Beach Soccer League and Africa Beach Soccer Union as well as contributor on Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL) website.He has covered multiple national and international football tournaments including Championship of African Nations (CHAN 2020), CAF Women's Champions League (2023), and Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2023).Since 2021, Oyediji has covered the NWFL Premiership especially the season ending Super Six Playoffs.A member of Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Ogun state chapter is also the image maker of the Remo Sports Development Council under the leadership of Chief Falilat Ogunkoya and David Osuolale.

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