National U-13 team in big win

 The Nigerian National U-13 team defeated Royal Gold Soccer Academy of Akure 4-0 in a friendly match played on Tuesday at the Akure township stadium.

National U-13 midfielder, God's Power, from Edo state, scored as early as the sixth minute to state the intent of the coach Danladi Nasidi led side.

The team's Media Officer, Bunmi Haruna said although, the Royal Gold boys managed to keep the national team at bay for close to 20 minutes, they were however, left helpless at the 25th minute, when a defensive blunder ensured that Aminu Adamu sneaked in to score the 2nd goal to end the first half 2-0 in favour of the national U-13 boys.
He said Coach Nasidi brought in a totally different set of players for the second half and the boys did not disappoint as midfielder Promise
Eshiebor made it 3-0 in the 60th minute while  Aremu Lateef sealed a comfortable 4-0 win in the 70th minute.

Fatumoju shines
Haruna maintained that despite the heavy defeat, the Royal Gold Soccer Academy team can however take solace in the fact that one of their
players, Emmanuel Fatumoju, who played as a defensive midfielder, impressed the national team handlers and has been picked to join the team in camp.
"Players like Fatumoju are the reasons NFF initiated this programme, to discover and groom young players of the right ages for Nigerian football, because the Aminu Maigari led NFF board believes in catching them young", Haruna quoted Coach Nasidi as saying.
The game was the first in the series of friendly matches the team would play during its four-week camping exercise in Akure, the capital city of Ondo state.

Six goes home
Meanwhile, coach Nasidi has announced that six players who could not measure up to the demands of the national camp have been dropped.
The players dropped are, Umaru Abdullahi(Kaduna state), Abudmajeed Mohammed(Niger state), Adeniran Usman(Ogun state), Obilana Deji(Ekiti state), Stephen Daniel(Kaduna state), and Aliu Lemu (Niger state).