Garba Manu Picks 35 Players For African Youth Championship Qualifiers

Title: Garba Releases 35-man List For Flying Eagles Garba Manu’s team for the country’s African Youth Championship qualifiers was released on Wednesday afternoon Nigeria U20 team coach Garba Manu has announced a 35-man squad for the country’s qualifying series for the 2015 African Youth Championship to hold in Senegal. The list was dominated by members of the victorious Golden Eaglets squad to the 2013 Fifa U17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. He picked goalkeeper Dele Alampasu, defender Musa Muhammed and strikers Kelechi Iheanacho and Success Isaac in his team that also has usual suspects Musa Yahaya, Akinjide Idowu, Abdullahi Alfa and Chidiebere Nwakali. The team is expected to reconverge in Abuja to begin the final phase of preparation for the qualifiers where Nigeria will face either Kenya or Tanzania in May. FULL SQUAD LIST GOALKEEPERS: Dele Alampasu, Adamu Abubakar, Abdulazeez Abubakar, Zaharadden Mohammed DEFENDERS: Mazadu Sirajo, Mustapha Abdullahi, Musa Muhammed, Zaharaddeen Bello, Abdullahi Alfa, Akinjide Idowu, Ifeanyi Matthew, Mathias Samuel, Fedelix Irene, Uche Okeke and Chidiebere Nwakali, Samuel Okon, Aliyu Abubakar, Wilfred Ndidi, Izu Omego, Timothy Danladi, Ifeanyi Nweke. MIDFIELDERS: Taiwo Awoniyi, Alhassan Ibrahim, Bernard Bulbwa,Suleiman Abdullahi, Billy Auta, Abubakar Lawal, Wasiu Jimoh, Anthony Omaka FORWARDS: Umar Ahmed, Kelechi Iheanacho, Success Isaac, Musa Yahaya, Chidera Eze, Victory Omodiagbe http://sport.ng.msn.com/world-cup-2014/news/nigeria-announce-35-man-flying-eagles-squad 3 Likes

Re: Garba Manu Picks 35 Players For African Youth Championship Qualifiers by safarigirl(f): 6:49pm

I'm a big fan of Manu Garba and his boys for obvious reasons. I'd like to congratulate NFF for continuity, it's a real breather to see that these people are getting their acts together and not throwing away talent eg even if my darling Awoniyi hasn't gotten signed up by an European club( bunch of blind bats ) he still got called up. Then there are the new boys that will be given that chance to become something. And of course there are those who were originally part of the U-17 team but failed to make it to the world cup who are getting that chance to prove themselves once again. All in all, this list is sense-making, this is the future of the Super Eagles, Iheanacho, Yahaya, Awoniyi, Musa Muhammed, Okon, Nwakali, Success, Alampasu, these are the guys that will make history. The only ones to have won the U-17 World Cup, the U-20 World Cup, the U-23 Olympics and the Senior World Cup. This is the future