Coach of Nigeria’s Under-17 team, Manu Garba, has said that the nation will need elements of luck to win the 2019 U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals holding in Tanzania. The experienced tactician has forever been part of the Nigeria U-17 set up since the early 2000s. He was also an assistant to the…

Nigeria’s Samson Tijani and Kunle Olusegun both picked individual awards at the 2019 Africa U17 Cup of Nations qualifying championships, which ended at the weekend in Niamey, Niger Republic.

Nigeria yesterday thrashed Cote d’Ivoire 5-1 to resuscitate its hope of qualifying for the African U-17 Nations Cup final.