FORMER Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has gifted the sum of N2 million to players of the Flying Eagles, as they prepare for the WAFU B U-20 Championship taking place in Cote d’Ivoire from July 26 to August 9.
Musa, Nigeria’s most-capped international player with 111 caps, who scored four goals in two appearances at the FIFA World Cup finals in 2014 and 2018, presented the cash gift to the two-time FIFA U-20 World Cup silver-medallists through the team’s coordinator, Alhaji Abubakar Abubakar.
The former Nigeria captain also charged the players to be focused ahead of the forthcoming tournament, where the WAFU B zone’s representatives to next year’s U-20 Africa Cup of Nations will emerge.
According to the 2013 AFCON winner, who also played for the Flying Eagles and won the U-20 AFCON with the team in South Africa in 2011, real professional football life begins with making a mark at the U-20 level which will determine how far a player can go in their career.
Responding to the gesture by Musa, Flying Eagles’ captain Simon Habila expressed the appreciation of the players while also assuring the ex-Super Eagles skipper that the team is working hard towards making Nigerians proud.
