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Again, Nigeria fails to qualify for Paris 2024 Olympics football event

By Christian Okpara
29 March 2023   |   2:24 am
For the second time in a row, Nigeria will not be at the Olympic Games. Yesterday in Morocco, Guinea, which held Nigeria to a goalless draw last week in Abuja, defeated the U-23 Eagles to beat the country to the 2023 African U-23 Nations Cup.

The national U-23 team w.

Guinea beats U-23 Eagles 2-0 in Morocco

For the second time in a row, Nigeria will not be at the Olympic Games. Yesterday in Morocco, Guinea, which held Nigeria to a goalless draw last week in Abuja, defeated the U-23 Eagles to beat the country to the 2023 African U-23 Nations Cup.

The African U-23 Cup of Nations is the Paris 2024 Olympic Games’ qualifying tournament, where the four best teams will pick the ticket to the Games.

Coached by the same Salisu Yusuf, who also failed to lead the country to the Japan 2020 edition of the Olympics, the Nigerians were so poor that followers of the game wondered why it took Guinea as much as 61 minutes to breach the U-23 Eagles’ defence.

After their opening goal in the 61st minute, the Guineans, rather than defend their lead, went for the kill and got the icing on their cake in the 76th minute to put paid to Nigeria’s Olympics ambition.

Yesterday’s failure was Nigeria’s worst result in the qualifying series as the U-23 Eagles failed to even make the qualifying tournament.

In 2020, Yusuf and his boys were beaten in the quarterfinals by South Africa, while the team, led by Samson Siasia in 2015 won the African championship hosted by Senegal before going on to win the bronze medal in Rio de Janeiro.

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