Team Nigeria Set To Lift Beach Soccer World Cup

A player in the national beach soccer team, Ogbonnaya Okemiri, has expressed confidence that the team would qualify for the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Tahiti.

Okemiri told Tidesports in Lagos that the African regional qualifiers for the championship would hold from April 10 to 14 in Casablanca, Morocco.

He added that the World Cup would hold between September 18 and 28 in Tahiti, a French island colony in the southern Pacific Ocean.

The player said he was confident because the country had formidable players that could qualify the nation for the World Cup.

“I strongly believe my team mates and we will qualify from the African regional qualifiers to represent the country at the World Cup,” he said.

bording to him, the team would build on its success at the last Copa Lagos competition to ensure its qualification for the World Cup from the African qualifiers.

Our performance at the last Copa Lagos tournament will spur us to ensure qualification for the World Cup,” Okemiri said.

He added that after its qualification, the team would embark on a series of friendlies, overseas training and matches, ahead of the World Cup tournament.

Okemiri however, urged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to give all necessary support to the team to ensure its qualification.