No fewer than 300 over aged footballers were rejected by officials on the first day of screening for the National U-17 soccer team, the Golden Eaglets.
Over 400 hopeful footballers had stormed the NFF/ FIFA Goal Project playing ground in Abuja for the screening exercise being conducted by Coach Manu Garba.
According to one of the officials involved in the screening exercise, “many old players simply descended on the training camp hoping to be picked for the team, but they were promptly sent away merely by looking at their hardened faces.”
The open screening for a new Golden Eaglets team began in Abuja on Monday and will be on for three weeks.
Nigeria are five-time world champions and will begin its qualification quest for next year’s U17 AFCON billed to hold in Madagascar with a road trip to Niger in August.
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