The coach of the Nigeria U17 team Ladan Bosso has included two players from the U17 team in his list of provisional players for the U20 World Cup, Owngoalnigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Nigeria U20 team sealed a spot at the World Cup by making the last four at the recently concluded U20 Africa Cup of Nations, they ended up finishing third with a 4-0 win over Tunisia in the losers play off.
As part of the ways Bosso intends to improve his team for the challenge that lies ahead he has dropped a level to the U17 team, where he has handed a spot to Emmanuel Michael and top striker Abdullahi Abubakar.
A source in the camp of the U17 team revealed that the Niger state born coach met with the coaching crew, where after rounds of talks he decided on the aforementioned duo to be part of his team for the U20 World Cup, which has no date yet following the decision to strip Indonesia off the hosting rights of the tournament.
” Yes we have two players in the U17 team included in the team. The left full back who scores for fun from free kicks and can also play comfortably in the middle. Then there is the striker who scored the winner at the WAFU B championship Abubakar. The two of them will compliment our team”, a member of the technical crew of the U20 technical crew also confirmed.
He went ahead to say the team’s right back Yahaya Lawal is also seriously under consideration for a spot in the U20 team but a decision will be taken before the list is submitted to world football governing body FIFA.
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