FIFA World Cup-bound Nigeria eased to a four-goal victory over Tunisia\u2019s on Friday to claim the bronze medals at the 17th Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.<\/p>\n
It was clear from the first few minutes that the seven-time African champions had shaken off the lethargy from their lone goal semi-final defeat to The Gambia on Monday, which upturned their dreams of an eighth continental title for Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n Ibrahim Muhammad, whose rocket accounted for one of the two goals that sank Mozambique in the group phase and shot the Flying Eagles to the quarter-finals, put the Tunisians to task by scoring only nine minutes into the clash at the mammoth Cairo International Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n Belgium-based forward Ahmed Abdullahi increased the yoke on the North Africans with tally goal barely after the re-start, before Jude Sunday made it three for Nigeria only two minutes after to put daylight between themselves and the Young Carthage Eagles<\/span><\/p>\n Man-of-the-match Jude Sunday rounded off a blistering afternoon and good day in the office for the Flying Eagles with a fourth goal in the 90th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n Victory earned Nigeria the bronze medal for a record-extending fourth time at the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations, and the Flying Eagles will also be one of the 24 teams in the pot on March 31 when FIFA conducts the draw for the U-20 World Cup taking place in Indonesia May 20 \u2013 June 11.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, coach Ladan Bosso, has revealed that he wants five top scorers in the Nigeria Premier Football League to join his team ahead of the U-20 World Cup in Indonesia in May<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Bosso disclosed this at the post-match press conference after the Flying Eagles thrashed Tunisia 4-0 in Egypt.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI have communicated to the Interim Management Committee those managing the Nigeria Premier Football League and responsible for the registration of players in the league, that I need five top scorers,\u201d Bosso said.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI need to have their profile and document to see if they qualify to be invited to add value to the attack of the Flying Eagles.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have learnt our lessons here in Egypt. I want to special dedicate this bronze medal feat to my mentor in Nigeria, Fanny Amun.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cHe called me after the team qualified for the world cup that I should use the remaining games as a fresh build-up to the preparations for Indonesia U-20 World Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI am happy that at least Nigeria qualified for the World Cup and won the bronze medal game,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FIFA World Cup-bound Nigeria eased to a four-goal victory over Tunisia\u2019s on Friday to claim the bronze medals at the 17th Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6607,1988,6608],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-flying-eagles","tag-tunisia","tag-u-20-afcon-bronze"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12587,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions\/12587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}