Garba wants F/Eagles in W/Cup as Africa champions

Flying Eagles coach Manu Garba has said he wants to qualify for the 2015 FIFA U-0 World Cup in New Zealand as Africans champions, despite being drawn in a ‘difficult’ group.
The Nigerian U20’s have been drawn in Group A of next year’s Africa Youth Championship with hosts Senegal, Congo and Cote D’ Ivoire and must at least get to the semifinals to be guaranteed of a place at the 2015 U20 World Cup, but Manu Garba is insisting that he wants to be in New Zealand as an African champion.
“Everybody agrees that we are in a very difficult group as the teams we will play against have very good youth teams, but our focus is to beat them and qualify for the World Cup. It is not just qualifying for the World Cup, we want to go there as African champions because we want to win the Africa Youth championship,” Manu told sl10.ng.
The Flying Eagles have won the tournament a record six times, the last being in 2011 in South Africa under the guidance of John Obuh, and before then in 2005 under Samson Siasia in Benin Republic.
Manu, whose Golden Eaglets team narrowly failed to win the 2013 CAF U17 championship in Morocco, says having failed to win an African title at his last attempt, he hopes to get it right this time.
“We narrowly failed to win the U17 last year and it was very painful. This time, we want to win the African title so that we can go to the World Cup as African champions,” he concluded.