Nigeria Qualifies For Inaugural FIH Hockey5s World Cup In Oman

Ossy Ugwu

Nigeria’s Nationwide Males’s Hockey Group certified to the inaugural Worldwide Hockey Federation FIH Hockey5s World Cup Oman 2024 regardless of a 8-6 slender loss to host Egypt of their fourth recreation of the African qualifiers which started on Sunday.

The group had earlier on Tuesday performed out a 4-4 draw towards Southern Africans; Zambia within the morning recreation, with the outcomes giving them the sting over group opponents as they positioned second behind Egypt.

Nigeria will as soon as once more sq. up towards the Egyptians within the ultimate Match on Thursday as they may observe their relaxation on Wednesday after two days of gruelling involvement within the recreation of Hockey.

If the gamers can put up an upset towards African Hockey Powerhouse Egypt, they are going to be topped Champions of the primary ever African qualifiers to the FIH HOCKEY5s Mundial, but when they fail, they are going to be contented with selecting the continent’s second accessible slot for his or her efforts.

In the meantime, Nigeria’s John Peter presently leads the scorers chart with 11 objectives forward of Egypt’s Elganaini Ahmed who has 9 and one other Nigerian, Solomon Denis who clinched 7 objectives up to now.

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