Nigeria Through to Caf Under-23 Championship

Nigeria’s Dream Team have qualified for the 2nd African U-23 Championship which will hold in Senegal later in the year.

The aggregate victory means Nigeria can continue the quest for a seventh appearance at the men’s football tournament of the Olympics, since first turning out at the 1968 Games in Mexico City.

However, the Congo, guided by famed French coach Claude Le Roy, can eliminate Nigeria on away goals by winning 1-0 at the Stade Municipal in the Atlantic oil hub.

Meanwhile, the Super Falcons have failed to qualify for Rio 2016 Olympics after Equatorial Guinea national women football team handed them a 2-1 defeat.

Taiwo Owiniyi was the two-goal savior in Zambia, but only appeared as a second-half substitute against the Congo because he was not fully fit.

The Coach Samson Siasia side traveled to Pointe Noire with a slim 2-1 lead from the reverse in Port-Harcourt over a couple of weeks ago.

“We were lucky to only lose 2-1 in Nigeria”, admits the bespectacled 67-year-old with flowing fair locks.

The Tunisia-Morocco tie is also delicately balanced while Mali should progress at the expense of Gabon.

He also added that he would give the team some days break, before they return to Congo for the All Africa Games in September.

Only a miraculous comeback can save Uganda after a 4-0 drubbing in Egypt, with Kahraba, whose real name is Mahmoud Abdel Moneim, the two-goal destroyer-in-chief. The last slot up for grabs is been contested between Mali and Gabon.