Buhari urges Golden Eaglets win trophy — Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup

The President called on the players to stay focused, avoid all distractions and put their globally acknowledged skills, ability and doggedness on display against U.S. today, Chile on October 20, Croatia on October 23 and in all their subsequent matches to win the tournament and give millions of soccer-loving Nigerians the flawless end-of-the-year gift.

Nigeria with this victory lead Group A with three points and will face Chile on Wednesday morning at the Estadio Sausalito, Vina Del.

The winning goal arrived 10 minutes from when Jang Jaewon rifled home a left-footed from close range to send the Koreans top of Group B.

Arellano captained the squad who held the defending U-17 champions scoreless until Chukwudi Agor broke the deadlock in the 50th minute. “We were able to play a good amount of worldwide matches and domestic matches and we hope through all of those experiences we have a really balanced team of 21 players that comes together and gets positive results”.

Kwande, who is also a member of the House representatives, told our correspondent at the Abuja National Stadium moments after the U-20 national women’s team, Falconets, qualified for the final round of the African qualifying series for the 2016 Federation Internationale de Football Association U-20 Women’s World Cup, courtesy of a 4-1 aggregate defeat of their opponents from the DR Congo, that Golden Eaglets must defend the cup their compatriots won in 2013 in UAE.

The Americans ended the game with 10-men after a straight red card was given to Trusty in the 87th minute after his rash challenge on Nigeria’s second goal scorer Osimhen.

Orlando City’s Pierre Da Silva entered the match for Gallardo in the 83rd minute and provided a small spark for the United States. That match will kick off at 4 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 2 and NBC Universo.