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Africa U-17 Championship: Coach Ugbade eyes World Cup ticket

By David Kabiyesi

Golden Eaglet head coach, Nduka Ugbade says paramount before him is to ensure Nigeria’s cadet team books one of the four tickets to the 2023 FIFA U17 World Cup. iwitnesslive.com can report.

Speaking at the team rematch media parley on Saturday, ” Sao Paolo” as he is fondly called hinted that he will shift his focus to winning the Africa U-17 trophy once the 2023 FIFA U17 World Cup ticket is in the bag

“Nigeria is a very strong team as I told you because we build a lot of capacity to meet up the demand that is placed upon us when we go for the competitions,” begins Ugbade  

“The issue here is that Zambia is as well a wonderful nation. Morocco, Cameroon, Algeria – all these countries in the competition are very good. Even the one that we don’t think will qualify, Somalia has done so well.

“So I have the mind that Nigeria, I’m not going to tell you that we are going to go all the way because it’s difficult to say this.

“Anything can happen and before you know it the end comes for Nigeria. The thing is that we are going to stand on our feet and do the best that we can, and see how we can go and how far we can,” he concluded.

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