The Flamingos of Nigeria today defeated their under 17 counterpart from the Democratic Republic of Congo 5 nill, in a 8 zero aggregate as they look forward to booking their ticket to the FIFA under 17 world cup in Costa Rica Next year.

The Flamingos had earlier defeated their DR Congo counterpart 3 nill in Kinshasa.

Esther Opeyemi sloted a low short into the right corner of the goal post in the 4th minute to give the Flamingos an early lead sending them0 Nigeria fan to jubilation, before adding a second in the 13 minute.

Timininu Adeshina made it 3 goals for Nigeria in the 19th minute after converting a free kick from the right flank to end the first half 3 zero.

The Flamingos missed a couple of chances at the commencement of the second half before Doosuur Atume scored the 4th goal for the Flamingos in the 58th minute and Tiawo Afolabi made it 5 goals in the 87th minute.

DR Congo’s Masanga Aime got the only yellow card of the game in the 63rd minute.

Speaking with Journalists after the game, The Flamingos head coach Bankole Olowookere noted that his technical team is now focused on the next game against Egypt, saying “my girls played to instructions today, even though there were some mistakes noticed we are still grateful. We now have to focus on the next game. We will study the Egyptians and develop our tactics for the next game. We know it will be tougher because even this team today was tougher than the last time we played, so we will prepare well not to let the country down.”

Meanwhile Deputy Governor of Edo state Comrade Philip Shaibu praised the team for their victory calling on the technical crew to work on “finishing of goals, as we missed more open one-on-one opportunities than we scored. If we had scored those goals we missed, we would have scored more than 10 goals. Goal opportunities don’t come always like that, so we must learn to take opportunities when we have them.”

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Comrade Shaibu also praised Edo Queens Defender Oruegwe Blessing Sunday for putting up a good performance for the Flamingos noting “this is the dream, we have 2 players in the team and 1 of them played today, and played brilliantly well. We want to be producing players for our national team be it male or female and we have just started.”

The Flamingos will next play Egypt in the qualifiers for the under 17 FIFA world cup