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Flying Eagles regroup for World Cup

vcode — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 05:04:57 +0000

Nigeria’s U-20 team, the Flying Eagles will today resume camping ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup finals billed for Colombia from July 29 to August 20 this year.

Already, coach John Obuh has invited 38 players, including 11 overseas-based professionals, to this first phase of camping scheduled to take place in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

The Flying Eagles, who toppled the Black Starlets of Ghana to become African champions for the sixth time at the recently concluded Africa Youth Championships in South Africa, will be hoping to also dethrone their West African neighbours at the World Cup.

Ghana won at the last edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup but won’t be in Colombia to defend their crown after failing to qualify from the African zone qualifiers.

The Flying Eagles have been handed what many regard as a fair group in Colombia with Croatia, Saudi Arabia and Guatemala as their first round opponents in Group D.

Record appearance

Nigeria has made an African record eight appearances at the FIFA U-20 World Cup but has never won the title which Ghana prides itself to be the only African country to have worn the crown.

The closest the Flying Eagles came to winning the coveted trophy was in 1989, losing 2-0 to Portugal in the final in Saudi Arabia, and again 16 years later in the Netherlands where they lost 2-1 to a Lionel Messi-inspired Argentina.

Nigeria were also third in the old Soviet Union in 1985, with the current Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia also in that squad.

Colombia 2011 will be a fourth successive trip to the FIFA U-20 World Cup finals for Nigeria and Obuh who narrowly missed out on World Cup glory when his lads failed to lift the U-17 trophy when Nigeria hosted the championships two years ago, is keen on bettering his record.

“We will take the matches as they come. We are taking all the teams in the group seriously. Anybody that is competing in the world stage will always want to conquer, so we are going to the World Cup with the aim of winning,” Obuh said.

While Obuh had problems picking a full strength squad for the African championship, as so many Nigerian starlets already play overseas, with many clubs reluctant to release them for the championship in South America, he has equally added that no player will be forced to be part of his plans as he is ready to make best use of the players at his disposal.

Ist Semi Final; Sri Lanka vs NewZealand

vcode — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:39:39 +0000

The big occasions of World Cup 2011 is finally arrived with the moment of only four teams and three more games. With Sri Lanka beat with New Zealand in the first semi final of ICC World Cup 2011 at R.Premdaa Stadium, Colombo which will decide the first team to play in Final at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on 2nd April 2011.
Who have thought at the start of the tournament that New Zealand whose past six months record in subcontinent are so bad (they failed to make the final of a tri-series in Sri Lanka, were hammered 5-0 in India, and between those two beatings they were humiliated in Bangladesh, where they lost 4-0.) and yet will feature in last four team of the world cup but yet they manage to do so and that is more than a big thing for them. But they are not satisfied with it only and they like to get one more step closer to Cup that counts..
Sri Lanka has great bowling attack with L.Malinga, M.Muralitahran, A.Mendis and R.Herath in their armory. The main worries for Sri Lankans are there middle order which is yet to be tested in the tournament. Apart from top four others struggled whenever they go the opportunity during this tournament. Likes of C.Silva, T.Samarweera and A.Mathews has not got lots of opportunity in the middle orders and if New Zealand able to get pass top three quickly then they can fancy there chances to beat the favorite Sri Lanka.

Lankans made the victory by 139 runs with Dilshan

vcode — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:15:33 +0000

Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by 139 runs. March 10 became a day of Dilshan .After 17 runs, Sri Lankan cricket team has already scored 106 runs with Dilshan scoring 63 runs while Tharanga has scored 40 runs.They made a real boosting power to their team through the score.

The ferocious and fast scoring has slowed down right now and the two batsmen, who look well set, seem to have picked the initiative from Zimbabwe cricket team that had won the loos.

As Sri Lanka readies to take on bigwigs in the World Cup 2011, its vice-captain Mahela Jayawardene said on Wednesday that team is yet to peak. The 1996 champions are the favorite and they reached at the WC with a dream and hope to win the title of Champions for the second time. Their match against Zimbabwe is of importance. It is understood that they would like to win it with a huge margin so that they can reserve a place in the quarter finals.Many cricket lovers have already set their deal for Sri Lanka in the 2011 WorldCup.

Yet Lankans have been able to score 5 points from four games. They have won the two games, lost one against Pakistan and the match against Australia was washed up because of the rain. This time they are ready to fire against the Zimbabwean. Lasith Malinga in the team has energized the players.