GOLDEN EAGLETS: RELEASE 20152‏

Eaglets' screening open to uninvited players
Determined to offer more teenagers opportunity to stake a claim in the
new set of Golden Eaglets, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has
requested  players within the age limit to try out their luck at the
on-going screening holding at the NFF/FIFA Goal Project Site in Abuja.
Interested players are to report from Tuesday with a caveat that they
would be responsible for their personal upkeep since they were not
initially invited by the coaching crew when the exercise took off last
Thursday.

Coach Emmanuel Amuneke said the team is still work in progress hence
the need to further extend the dragnet to other budding talents:
"Everything is well on course but we are not yet satisfied with what
we have seen so far."

"You don't need a whole day or week to test the capability of a player
and it is important we have a look at what others can do," reasoned
the former African Footballer of the Year.

Hundreds of players have already passed through the exercise but
officials maintained that there is the need to have a pool of players
in store in case of any eventuality. Apart from documentary proof of
their births, selected players would be subjected to the Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI) Test before they can be eligible to feature in
the upcoming African qualifiers.

The continental soccer-ruling body, CAF,   has already drawn the
Golden Eaglets bye into the second Round of the 2015 CAN Under-17
Championship to be held in Niger. The Nigerian youngsters would meet
the winner of the First Round decider between Burundi and Congo DR
between July and August.