Maigari: Memorable weekend signposts memorable year for Nigeria football

President of Nigeria Football Association, Aminu Maigari has posited that the memorable wins over the Morrocan side in the quarter final duel in the African Nations Championship has signposted the making of a memorable year in the offing for the country’s game.

The home based Eagles rose from three goals down  to draw level and eventually edge out Morocco’s Atlas Lions 4-3 in extra time, in what remains the most extraordinary match in the history of the African Nations
Championship.

The nation also recorded another feat as Nigeria's Falconets, pipped their South African counterparts 1- nil for a 7- nil aggregate in the final African qualifying series for the 2014 FIFA Under 20 Women’s World Cup played over the weekend at the Dobsonville Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa

Maigari will lead the Nigeria delegation to Bloemfontein on Wednesday for the semi final cracker against Ghana.

 “It has been an amazing weekend, in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. The Falconets concluded their fixture against Basetsana (South Africa’s U-20 girls) in emphatic fashion and the Super Eagles fully
underscored the ever-unyielding spirit of the Nigerian.

“It’s a long time that the football world witnessed such a dramatic comeback, with all the thrills and frills. Our U-20 boys did something like this against then USSR, in their quarter final duel at the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship, which people still refer to as Dammam Miracle.

The Super Eagles B have given us a Cape Town Wonder and they certainly look very good for the trophy.”

The Free State Stadium hosted the clash between the Super Eagles A and Greece at the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals, which Nigeria lost 1-2 after taking a first half lead.