NIGERIA’S representatives in this year’s CAF African Schools Football Championship, National Grammar School, Nike, Enugu State, got off to a flying start today.
They defeated their Togolese counterparts 4-0 in the WAFU B Zonal Finals of the championship began in Lome.
National Grammar School had emerged champions of a national championship staged in Abuja from November 2 to November 9, which had 11 teams from nine states of the federation.
There were teams from Yobe, Enugu, Plateau, Borno, Oyo, Ogun, Taraba and Kwara States as well as the FCT in the U-15 competition.
In the female category, FOSLA Academy, owned by former Nigeria Football Federation president Sani Lulu, emerged as champions of a three-team competition and will fly Nigeria’s flag.
Representatives from Nigeria, Benin Republic, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and host Togo are converging in Lome for the four-day WAFU B zonal finals that will end on Sunday, with matches at the Stade Municipal de Kegue.
The winners in Lome, where the competition is being played in a round-robin format, will represent WAFU B at the continental finals slated for April 2024.
The zonal finals are being staged alongside the WAFU B Congress, being attended by President of Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Ibrahim Gusau, and the General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi.
Over 800,000 boys and girls from 28,000 schools across 44 countries are taking part in this season’s CAF African Schools Football Championship, which is the brainchild of the President of Confederation of African Football, Dr. Patrice Motsepe.
