The victory of the current set of Nigeria's golden eaglets (U-17 NATIONAL TEAM) is yet another indication that history perhaps nature has a way of choosing its champions and repeating itself.
History indicated that Nigeria has won her previous U-17 trophies in the orients-CHINA85 $ JAPAN 93, who can then be surprise by Nigeria's victory in KOREA 07.
Aside our victories coming from the far-eastern countries, history also has it that another African country gets to the semi-final stage of the competition. A recap shows Guinea playing the eaglets in the semi-final stage in China 85 and losing out to the eaglets on penalties. It was the then almighty starlets of Ghana with the mecurial Daniel Addo to lose to the Wilson Oruma led eaglets of Japan 93 and scaling through their semi-final pairing.
There are only two exceptions to this present victory: 1,Nigeria never had to play any of her West-African neighbours to be champions and 2, the country defeated in the final never starts with a G,-Germany in 85 and Ghana in 93. The two finals we lost were against Russia in87 and France in 2001.
History has again repeated itself with Nigeria triumph in Korea-07.
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