Nigeria U20 Shelve Departure To Calabar

Flying Eagles will no longer depart Abuja for
Calabar today as earlier
planned.
Officials said that the team will now fly out to
the southern coastal town
on June 5 ahead of an U20 AFCON second round
return leg match
against Burundi.
The second leg is fixed for June 11 with the
overall winners squaring up
against Sudan in July for a place in the final
tournament in Zambia next
year.
The Flying Eagles led by coach Emmanuel
Amuneke won the first leg
1-0 in Bujumbura.
No explanation was rendered for the change of
the team’s travel plans,
but it may again not be unconnected with the
cash crunch facing the
Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).