Celebrates History Making Golden Eaglets

The management and staff of Naij.com wish to congratulate the Nigeria Football Federation on the success of the Golden Eaglets at the just concluded FIFA U17 World Cup held in Chile.
Once again, Africa has made history and our newspaper followed the Emmanuel Amunike–led team from the first blast of the whistle to the last blast of the whistle.
The Eaglets began the tourney with very scintillating performance and then
Eaglets celebrate their triumph over Chile.
The Nigerian youth team however lost their third game as they could not handle European giants Croatia.
Chuzwueze in the thich of the action against Croatia
Like a ram on the battle field, the Eaglets returned in full force in the second round and they setting up a mouth-watering encounter with Brazil in the quarter finals.
Like the South Americans are known for, Brazil started the very pulsating quarter-final game with beautiful display on the pitch, but the Osimhen-gang  found the back of the net three times defeating Brazil 3 – 0.
Nigeria VS Brazil
The Eaglets worked so hard against a very organised Mexico-side in the semi-finals. That clash saw players of both teams struggle for the win for their respective nations. It was a game that exhibited great skills from both sides with strikes from Nigeria’s Okonkwo and Diego Cortes of Mexico which sent the fans ‘straight to the heavens’ at 2 – 2.
Ebere later squeezed the ball in for a Nigeria’s third before Osimhen sent the goalkeeper the wrong-way from the penalty spot. ; setting-up an all-African final against Mali.
Coach Amunike Applauds Nigerian striker Osimhen
The World champions approached the final with pre-caution remembering that Mali are the current African champions.
The match had all glitz and glamour as both teams played while the world focused on the Epic encounter. History was about to be made as records would be shattered.
Alas, Victor Osimhen expertly cleaned Florent Sinama Pongolle of France’ name as the player with the highest number of goals at the youth championship, having scored nine times at Trinidad and Tobago in 2001.
Osimhen lashes a shot into the net to put Nigeria ahead against Mali.
After he lost a penalty earlier in the game, the Nigerian goal poacher scored his 10th goal of the tournament, earning him the golden boot as well as becoming the player with the highest number of goals at the age-group competition.
Most valuable player of the tournament and captain of the Nigerian side, Nwakali (R) who also wont the bronze shoe and Victor Osimhen, the highest goal scorer at the FIFA U17 competition.
Funsho Bangboye took the game beyond the Malians with a sensational strike in the 59th minute and the Eaglets cruised home to victory.
Nigeria are world champions for a record fifth time. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GALLANT GOLDEN EAGLETS FROM NAIJ.COM.

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