Golden Eaglets Coach Emmanuel Amuneke Storms Ibadan For Scouting

In a bid to go back to a drawing board and fortify the Golden Eaglets ahead of FIFA U-17 World Cup slated for Chile later this year, the head Coach of Emmanuel Amuneke has visited the camp of Ibadan based soccer school, Frenage Soccer Academy to scout for fresh legs in an invitational tourney organized by the academy.

Among the participating soccer academies are Kwara Football Academy, Fountain Youths Sports Academy Ekiti, Amazing Fooball Academy Osogbo, United Football Academy Akure and International Football Academy Ilorin.

Others include  Bravo Soccer Academy also from Ilorin, Soccer Talent Academy Ibadan, Astound Freeman Soccer Academy Abeokuta Ogun State and the host Frenage Soccer Academy.

The ex-international who was in the company of his friends such as Mutiu Adepoju, Duke Udi, Tunde Odubola popularly known as Zico expressed his delight on the good soccer displayed by the teams that confronted themselves on Saturday, the first day of the tourney played on the Astroturf pitch of Lead City University Ibadan.

“I’m sure we should be able to get couple of good players here at the end of this exercise, as I can see the zeal and volume of talent in the boys, and I must commend the youthfulness in most of these boys, they all looked very young which is what we expect in an academy”, Amuneke noted.

Amunike however, assured Nigerians of a good outing when the FIFA U-17 World up gets underway in Chile from 17 October to 8th November 2015 saying he had put the Niger experience behind him and now have to prepare very well for the next challenge before them.

Nigeria and Mali finished as group winners at the CAF U-17 Championship 2015 played in Niger to secure their spots at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 where they will be joined by fellow semi-finalists Guinea and South Africa.