Botswana Under 17 Team Arrive Nigerian On Friday

Botawana Under 17 team will arrive Nigeria on Friday for a two-match friendly with Nigeria's Golden Eaglets. Both matches, which will take place at the U. J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar will hold this Saturday and next Monday.

The Nigeria Football Federation has organized the games as part of the Golden Eaglets’ final phase preparation for the African Under 17 Championship taking place in Morocco between 13th and 27th April.

Manu Garba’s boys are unbeaten in 20 friendlies and competitive matches since coming on stream last year, and swept into the African Under 17 finals by winning all six qualifying matches, scoring 21 goals and conceeding only one.

 In contrast, Botswana’s cadets only squeezed past Malawi, Rwanda and Algeria to reach the eight-nation finals.

Prior to their qualifying race last year, the Eaglets played a similar two-leg friendly against the Rwandan U-17 Team, also in Calabar, both of which they won comfortably.

The Eaglets will fly out of the country to Qatar on 13th March, for a four-week final preparatory programme ahead of the continental showpiece in Morocco.

 They will be availed of the exquisite training facilities at the world-renowned Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence, Doha.

Nigeria take on Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and debutants Congo Brazzaville in Group B of the African Under 17 Championship in Morocco.