{"id":237780,"date":"2012-12-09T23:27:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/nigeria-ghana-u-17-rivalry-rekindled\/"},"modified":"2012-12-09T23:27:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T23:27:58","slug":"nigeria-ghana-u-17-rivalry-rekindled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/09\/nigeria-ghana-u-17-rivalry-rekindled\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, Ghana U-17 Rivalry Rekindled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/c30f303717290_683070.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c13\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Nigeria&#8217;s Golden Eaglets have been handed tough opponents including Ghana for their group games ahead of the 2013 Caf Under17 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Congo and Cote d&#8217;Ivoire have also been drawn in Group B alongside Ghana and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria head coach, Manu Garba, believes the draw result pegs his Golden Eaglets against Africa&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot complain at this stage. Once you qualify for a major tournament it is expected that you should be prepared to come up against the best teams,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ghana like us have a rich tradition at Under17 level. So we have huge respect for them, same with our other group opponents. We will be very prepared before the competition starts next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Morocco will play hosts to the cadet championship between April 13 and 27 next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Moroccans have Gabon, Tunisia and Botswana in same group.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Golden Eaglets have been handed tough opponents including Ghana for their group games ahead of the 2013 Caf Under17 Championship.Congo and Cote d&#8217;Ivoire have also been drawn in Group B alongside Ghana and Nigeria.Nigeria head coach, Manu Garba, believes the draw result pegs his Golden Eaglets against Africa&#8217;s best.&#8221;We cannot complain at this stage. Once you qualify for a major tournament it is expected that you should be prepared to come up against the best teams,&#8221; he said.&#8221;Ghana like us have a rich tradition at Under17 level. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria, Ghana U-17 Rivalry Rekindled - 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\/2012\/12\/09\/nigeria-ghana-u-17-rivalry-rekindled\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria, Ghana U-17 Rivalry Rekindled - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s Golden Eaglets have been handed tough opponents including Ghana for their group games ahead of the 2013 Caf Under17 Championship.Congo and Cote d&#039;Ivoire have also been drawn in Group B alongside Ghana and Nigeria.Nigeria head coach, Manu Garba, believes the draw result pegs his Golden Eaglets against Africa&#039;s best.&quot;We cannot complain at this stage. 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