By Amaechi Agbo

Nigeria’s national U-17 male team coach, Manu Garba has disclosed that the team currently in semi-finals of the 2019 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations have achieved their first objective in the tournament after they booked their ticket to this year’s FIFA U-17 World Cup championship holding in Brazil, Bestchoicesports.com.ng can report

The Golden Eaglets Saturday reached the semi-finals of the championship and also qualified for the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup by virtue of playing out a 1-1 draw with Uganda.

Speaking during post-match press conference yesterday, Garba said that the match against Uganda was tactical adding that the Nigerian boys conceded the first goal do to carelessness and loss of concentration.

“I must say that it was a highly tactical game, the Ugandans played well but looking at the chances created, we created more chances than the Ugandans. Our boys lost concentration to concede, that’s carelessness.

The last man would have headed the ball away but these are young boys, they will always make clumsy mistakes at times. I must say the Ugandans gave a good account of themselves, they were just lucky not to have conceded more goals.

“My boys played so well, and I must thank them for not losing in three matches but I think the boys have not reached their form.

“They are just trying to pick up match by match.
I had five first team players who had their first international match when we played Tanzania, so they are just trying to get their confidence into the tournament.

“I must say that I am very grateful to the players for getting seven points out of the maximum nine,” he said