European Tour: NPFL U17 Team List Out On Friday

European Tour: NPFL U17 Team List Out On Friday

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The Nigeria Premier Football League NPFL Youth U-17 Stars once again announced their readiness for the forthcoming Football Tour of Spain with a 1-0 thumping of Access Football Academy. The team list according to Chairman, Nigeria Premier Football League, Gbenga Elegbeleye, the team's final list will be out on Friday.

David Benjamin scored the only goal of the friendly match that was played at the FIFA Goal Project of Package B of the moshood Abiola Stadium Abuja.

The friendly match was organized to further prepare the team ahead of the European tour where the team will showcase their talents in Sevilla, Spain and Portugal.

While advising the players on the need to give good account of themselves and to be good ambassadors of Nigeria when they travel for the tour, NPFL Chairman Hon. Gbenga Elegbelye, charge the boys to use the tour to showcase their talents.

"I want to congratulate all of you that will be taking part in the tour because you are the first set and I want to appeal to you to use this great opportunity to help your football career".

"The final list will be out anytime from Friday and we will start Visa processing immediately the list is out. As you can see we are trying our best to see if you can also travel to Portugal to play some matches in addition to the matches in Sevilla Spain where we have partnership to bring our best players to come and showcase their talents".

Also speaking, coach of the NPFL U-17 team Ken Chukwu believes the team would be ready for the tour.

"The objectives of the friendly was achieved, it is part of our preparation, it is to put the boys in good shape and I can tell you that their confidence is back".

On his part, coach of Access Football Academy Sunday Bege who expressed satisfaction over the performance of his players also gave his opinion on the performance of his opponent.

"My players tried their best despite the fact that some of them are not really fit but in all, the two teams played good football".

"Overall our opponent the NPFL Youth All Stars played well, this is the third friendly matches we played against them, the only thing that is missing from the team is creativity, once that is done the team is good to go".

About 24 players are training morning and evening at the FIFA Goal Project for the NPFL U-17 Tour of Spain.