Golden Eaglets’ campaign for a sixth world title in Brazil came to an end with a 3-1 loss to the Netherlands early on Wednesday morning to the chagrin of football fans across the country.
Ajax young forward Sontje Hansen netted a hat-trick to propel the Netherlands past Nigeria 3-1 and into the quarter-finals at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Brazil 2019™.
The five-time world champions showed frailty in defence and lack of coordination and cutting edge in attack throughout the tournament, scoring nine goals and conceding another nine in four matches.
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Nigeria 🇳🇬 1-3 🇳🇱 Netherlands
⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️ Sontje Hansen (4’,15’,80’PK)
⚽️ Olakunle Olusegun (12’)Nigeria have been eliminated from the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup. pic.twitter.com/D9SRNpNYej
— dbswarri (@dbswarri) November 6, 2019
Coach Manu Garba’s boys, having lost to Australia in their last group match, once again came up short against the Netherlands to crash out of the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup.
Fans took to social media site Twitter to voice out their frustration.
This is the worst Nigeria U17 team I've seen in the last 15 years. #NGANED pic.twitter.com/ScJdPTtrVm
— ＭＵＳＢＥＹ (@Mus6ey) November 5, 2019
Yoruba people used to say “ Ogbon ju agbara lo “ which means Wisdom thrive better than strength… The Nigeria 🇳🇬 #GoldenEaglet played with power, running and grit, while The Netherlands 🇳🇱 played with their brain 🧠… Meanwhile, this man has been warning us ever since 👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/bKZRPuURtX
— 🌟KING OF LAGOS(MFR) (@Derek74399105) November 6, 2019
It's high time EFCC carryout their duty diligently. They should touch lite NFF because they are the real yahoo yahoo. Bribe taking and name substitute for highest bidder. They went to Brazil🇧🇷to tarnish our record. Four games ⚽2 win. Shio! #NEDNIG #U17WC. Oh my fuel 😭😭😭
— JA 🗨️🇺🇸🇳🇬 (@oluwajames10) November 6, 2019
https://www.twitter.com/theCyberNewt/status/1191863002234073090
Nigeria U17 manager, midfielders and defenders #NGANED #FIFAU17WC #FIFAU17WorldCup pic.twitter.com/QTNiMizToh
— Sydney Talker's Assistant (@jibbyford_) November 5, 2019
https://www.twitter.com/Christen_HenryX/status/1191867702341754880
https://www.twitter.com/Vision_lifee/status/1191859816765034503
https://www.twitter.com/kaytiki/status/1191853760492056576
https://www.twitter.com/dat_teewhy/status/1191882415050043392
.@thenff, come on #GoldenEaglets, our defensive frailties still shows in the #U17WC round of 16. No improvement since the group stages! This is really disappointing cos I thought we could go all the way or get to SFs. 😡😡😡😡😡😡
Poor performance!!! #Nigeria #NGANED— Olalekan Owolabi #StayHomeSaveLives (@OgbeniOlalekan) November 6, 2019
The Kings of Comebacks – Golden Eaglets – were the Kings of Letdowns in disguise.
I'm not saying dis becos dey lost but dis is the worst Nigeria u17 ever.
Manu Garba picked good teams becos he chose on merit but den he started visiting Academy owners at home… #NGANED #u17wc
— Jonero John (@joneroofficial) November 6, 2019
Golden Eaglets messed up #NGANED pic.twitter.com/HoOcL7miEY
— Romeo Okon✳️ (@OkonRomeo) November 6, 2019
CJN, Quota System. Heads of near dozen Security Agencies, by Quota System, etc. etc. None of these has achieved any measure of success the generality of Nigerians could be proud of. Now, even the ability to play football has been thrown open to Quota! They keep doing the same thing and expecting different results o! We are tired of waiting for people who have chosen failure over success o…
Tribalism, favoritism corruption and man-knows-man is the problem in Nigerian soccer. There is one part of the country that has been side-lined. Let us look inward and pick people according to their performance. You people can now see who Amunike really is