Golden Eaglets head coach Nduka Ugbade says the team will be hugely motivated for their 2023 Africa U-17 Cup of Nations quarter final tie against Burkina Faso.
Victory in the game will earn Ugbade’s side a ticket to the FIFA World Cup. The Golden Eaglets have won the World Cup five times and qualified for 12, and are looking to go back to the global showpiece.
Head coach Nduka Ugbade said, in his interview as reported by Cafonline:
This match will be important for us as it will qualify us for the World Cup. Burkina faso has a really good team and we have played against them before and we experienced a very difficult match. We expect it to be the same in the quarter final.
My message before the match to the players is that these competitions are usually intense, and I told them we must have the will and play the match as it should, and stressed that winning makes us qualify for the World Cup.”
Ugbade’s side finished second in Group B, with the matches played in Constantine, and have recently relocated to Algiers where the quarter final duel will be played.
Nigeria will play the quarter final tie against Burkina Faso in Algiers on Thursday.
