shock over Flying Eagles defeat-NFF

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has expressed huge shock over the defeat of the national U-20 team, the Flying Eagles by their German counterparts in the on-going FIFA World Youth championship (WYC) taking place in New Zealand.

Chairman of the Technical Committee of the NFF, Chief Felix Anyansi told Sports Vanguard in a telephone chat that the outcome of the Round of 16 game was very regrettable because the team had been exceptional in its previous outings.
Anyansi who refused to blame anybody for the ouster further stated that the federation would be properly briefed on what really went wrong with the team when they return to the country.
“The result of that match is what we least expected but that is football for you, sometimes when you have high hopes, that is when it will let you down. As a federation we did all that was needed of us to do but I don’t know what happened but the truth is that the boys let us down.
“Well for me, this is not the time to apportion blames but when the team return we will get more insight into what actually happened to our team.”
He however revealed needed to excel at the tournament, even as he assured that the team will not be abandoned when they return from the tournament.