New controversy in the Sub-20 World Cup in Argentina. The match between the locals and the Nigerian team to be held this Wednesday afternoon has an interesting preview with the complaint from the African team about the problems that arose to move to the meeting venue.
And it is that the flight that had to transfer the Nigerian team from Buenos Aires to the city of San Juan, central-western Argentina, was delayed no more and no less than nine hours, since it was 9:00 AM (local time). local) on Monday, but ended up taking off at 6:00 PM, missing a key day of training for the Nigerian team to face the team led by Javier Mascherano.
The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) communicated the situation through its Twitter account, assuring that “no explanation was given” for the flight delay. However, according to Argentine media reports, the plane would have been delayed because it originally left Brazil, where it could not leave at the scheduled time.
In this way, Nigeria was only able to train once prior to the match with the Albiceleste team, after losing to Brazil on May 27. The next day, “Las Águilas Voladoras” had a recovery training in Buenos Aires. The only training they were able to do was this Tuesday afternoon, after settling in at the hotel.
Nigeria reached the U-20 World Cup as third in the African Cup of Nations in the category, qualifying as the best third in Group D after beating the Dominican Republic 2-1 and Italy 2-0. For its part, despite not having qualified through the regular routes of the South American U-20 tournament held in Colombia in January after being eliminated from the group stage, the Argentine team was elected as organizer of the World Cup after FIFA dispensed with Indonesia for political reasons.
Mascherano’s men beat Uzbekistan, current Asian champions, 2-1, and thrashed Guatemala 3-0 and New Zealand 5-0.
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