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Friday 4 April 2014

Manu Garba Announces 20-man Squad For Morocco Friendly, Alampasu, Iheanacho Missing





Flying Eagles head Coach, Manu Garba, has named a 20-man squad ahead of the two-legged friendly match against Morocco.

The Nigeria U-20 team national team will play their Moroccan counterparts in a two-legged friendly match on April 9 and April 11, respectively.


This announcement is contained in a statement issued by the team's Media Officer, Samm Audu.

The list of invited players has some members of the victorious U17 team at UAE like Taiwo Awoniyi, Akinjide Idowu, Musa Yahaya, highligting it.

See full list:

Goalkeepers: Adamu Abubakar, Abdulazeez Abubakar and Emeka Nwabulu,

Defenders: Aliyu Abubakar, Wilfred Ndidi, Prince Izu Omego, Ifeanyi weke, Mustapha Abdullahi and Zaharaddeen Bello.

Midfielders: Abdullahi Alfa, Akinjide Idowu, Ifeanyi Matthew, Samuel Mathias, Musa Yahaya, Anthony Omaka and Bernard Bulbwa,

Strikers: Taiwo Awoniyi, Alhassan Ibrahim, Suleiman Abdullahi and Abubakar Lawal.

Notable absentees from the list are two awardees in UAE - goalkeeper, Dele Alampasu and Midfielder, Kelechi Iheanacho - who have moved on to european teams

Both teams are preparing for 2015 African Youth Championship qualifiers next month.

Nigeria faces the winners of the match between Kenya and Tanzania, while Morocco takes on the winners of the clash between Togo and Equatorial Guinea in May.

The fixture is in continuation of the qualifying tournament to be hosted by Senegal in March 2015.

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