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The seven-time African champions volition footwear disconnected their run against Tunisia astatine the June 30 Stadium successful Cairo connected Thursday.
Flying Eagles caput manager Aliyu Zubairu has intelligibly stated that his team's paramount nonsubjective astatine the 2025 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations successful Egypt is to unafraid qualification for the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
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The U-20 AFCON successful Egypt holds large weight, arsenic the 4 semi-finalists volition automatically gain a spot astatine the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup, which is scheduled to beryllium hosted by Chile aboriginal this year.
Nigeria's Flying Eagles, who past tasted continental glory astatine this level successful 2015, are considered 1 of the favorites to assistance the trophy successful this year's variation of the biennial younker championship.
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However, Coach Zubairu emphasized that their archetypal absorption is firmly acceptable connected securing World Cup qualification.
“We wouldn’t privation to enactment excessively overmuch unit connected the boys, that they indispensable triumph the trophy. The archetypal people present is to get the summons to the World Cup,” Zubairu told NFF TV.
He continued, “When we get to the semi-final stage, we volition beryllium them down again, and speech astir winning the title, but our archetypal people is the World Cup ticket.”
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The seven-time African champions volition footwear disconnected their run against Tunisia astatine the June 30 Stadium successful Cairo connected Thursday. Zubairu expressed his assurance successful his players' readiness for the task ahead.
“We are precise overmuch prepared, if you look astatine the journey, we started mentation from Abuja to Kastina, past Kastina backmost to Abuja. Now, we are successful Egypt waiting for the archetypal lucifer which is against Tunisia, the boys are ready,” helium added.
Historically, the Flying Eagles person a favorable grounds against Tunisia astatine this level, having ne'er mislaid to the North Africans, with 2 wins and 1 gully to their name.
Notably, Nigeria triumphed implicit Tunisia 4-0 successful the third-place lucifer of the U-20 AFCON 2 years ago, besides held successful Egypt.
Zubairu believes this past triumph serves arsenic a motivating origin for his existent squad.
“There is nary unit from immoderate angle. Our triumph implicit Tunisia 2 years agone is simply a large motivation, adjacent though you don’t dwell excessively overmuch successful the past,” Zubairu stated.
“We bushed them 4-0 successful the third-place lucifer then, but it’s going to beryllium a antithetic script now. They are 2 antithetic teams adjacent though they are representing the aforesaid state . I don’t spot it a pressure, adjacent though past tin ever play a relation successful motivating a team. So, it’s going to service arsenic a motivating origin for the team," helium added.
With their sights firmly acceptable connected a World Cup berth, the Flying Eagles volition beryllium aiming for a affirmative commencement to their U-20 AFCON run against Tunisia.
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