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‘F’Eagles Strong Enough To Win U-20 W/Cup’
Flying Eagles coach, Manu Garba has declared that the team is strong enough to win the FIFA U-20 World Cup billed for New Zealand from May 30 to June 20, 2015.
Garba in a telephone interview said that the team was growing stronger by the day, following their victory in two friendly matches in Germany.
“The most important thing is that the Eagles have been improving day by day because they won their two friendly matches against Hoffenheim, an U 23 team 5-2.
“Then with Nurnberg, another U-23 at the Subwest Park training ground which they won 5-0.
“I think we will do well at the world cup.
“We are still expecting our three players: Success Isaac of Granada FC, Spain, Simon Moses of KAA Gent of Belgium and Kelechi Iheanacho of Manchester City, England.
“They would be joining the team on May 26 and when they join us and they will have to stay on the bench to get in tune with the rest of the team because the boys here are doing very well,’’ he said.
Garba added that players like Taiwo Awoniyi of Imperial Academy has scored a hat trick in both of the matches.
The Flying Eagles are in group E, where they are pitched alongside Brazil, Hungary and North Korea.
The African champions would face six-time world champions, Brazil on June 1 in their first game of the tournament.