{"id":395967,"date":"2011-04-24T12:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/24\/nigeria-reach-ayc-semis\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T12:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T12:57:51","slug":"nigeria-reach-ayc-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/nigeria-reach-ayc-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria reach AYC semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/24c926dd2325459_nig.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Nigeria's Terna Suswam (right) Saikou Gassama of Gambia\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Suswam (right) tries to prevent Gambia&#8217;s Gassama from controlling the ball<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Nigeria reached the semi-finals of the Africa Youth Championship (AYC) when defeating Gambia 2-0 in Group B on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The result means the Flying Eagles are also through to the Under-20 World Cup to be played in Colombia in July.<\/p>\n<p>African and world title holders <strong>Ghana<\/strong> failed to advance to the last four after they were held to a 1-1 draw by <strong>Cameroon<\/strong> in the group&#8217;s other game.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon topped the group with seven points, Nigeria finished in second place with six points, Ghana&#8217;s two points gave them third place while bottom side Gambia had a point.<\/p>\n<p>Going into the final group game, Nigeria needed to win to avoid any surprises from closest rivals Ghana and the Flying Eagles did just that with two second-half goals.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley Okoro put the Flying Eagles in the lead in the 65th minute and Ramon Azeez added another 12 minutes later to seal the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana needed a win against Cameroon to have any chance of advancing but they failed to produce the much-needed victory as Kwame Nsor&#8217;s early strike was cancelled out by Emmanuel Mbongo in the 90th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will play Mali in the semi-finals on Thursday while Cameroon take on Egypt in the day&#8217;s other game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>see also<\/p>\n<hr class=\"pufff\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related bbc links:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"5\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>related internet links:<\/p>\n<p>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/0ca56104o.gif.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"10\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/24c926dd2325459_nig.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/africa\/9466943.stm\" title=\"Nigeria reach AYC semis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria reach AYC semis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nigeria&#8217;s Suswam (right) tries to prevent Gambia&#8217;s Gassama from controlling the ball Nigeria reached the semi-finals of the Africa Youth Championship (AYC) when defeating Gambia 2-0 in Group B on Sunday. The result means the Flying Eagles are also through to the Under-20 World Cup to be played in Colombia in July. African and world title holders Ghana failed to advance to the last four after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Cameroon in the group&#8217;s other game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria reach AYC semis - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/nigeria-reach-ayc-semis\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria reach AYC semis - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s Suswam (right) tries to prevent Gambia&#039;s Gassama from controlling the ball Nigeria reached the semi-finals of the Africa Youth Championship (AYC) when defeating Gambia 2-0 in Group B on Sunday. 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