Under-17 Boys Should Have Been Used For The Nations Cup

are you serious? you want to throw our boys into the fire, its as if you've not being watching the nations cup, do you see how physical and extremely fast the players in the nations cup are, our eaglets can't even beat Benin (those guys were extremely fast and muscular). It would take an average of 5-7 years for our eaglets to mature even Christanus (even though he be "agbaya"). As much as you hate the eagles, there only weak link has been the midfield, that's why our vaunted strike force have been sub par, that's  why our administration comes in, if our soccer federation cannot create soccer academies like the widely acclaimed Clairefontaine Academy in France or cannot unearth another okocha or Ammunike after almost a decade in a country of 140 million soccer enthusiasts, then you know we have a problem.
Lets just pray John Fashanu runs for FA president.

Sad times folks,
@Davidif, talkin about maturity, who says those under 17 are truly under 17. They cld hv done better in my opinion. Playin for the national team is more to do with the heart than the maturity of the bones,

Super eagles were crap and the players let us all down. Period.

@eclairs
Concerning maturity, they might not be truly U17 but the truth of the matter is that they they still play U17 ball and are simply not good enough for the senior level yet, mentally, and football wise. They lack the IQ and football knowledge to perform at this level. Remember the Spanish boys they beat with penalties in the world cup, only Bojan Krkic is playing right now for Barcelona and has not yet being called to the senior squad, if it was naija, everybody would be shouting that they should throw him into the mix immediately. Anyone remember what happened to those little kids that we threw into the fire? Opabunmi, Ogbeche and co. last time i checked they fell off the radar. Thank God people like y'all are not soccer officials, just because you saw messi, michael owen, Rooney, and Anelka blow up at such a young stage doesn't mean that everybody can do it, on average it takes this kids 5-7 years to be ready for showtime because lets face it most of this kids are late bloomers (at least 80%), it will take them quite a while to mature, especially the midfielders, defenders and even some strikers, remember Jaap Stam and van Nistleroy didn't blow up until there early 20's.
Don't forget that for every Francesc Fabregas, there is a Nii Lamptey, and for every Ronaldo there is always a Berkant Goktan.   

our under 27I7 boys could have done better. at least they for sabi struggle and they for fit run. and do simple things like run, and trap.

lol
If the under 17 doesn't won the world cup will you be saying this?

lol that is funny
They are not strong enough for that

c'mon, don't be ridiculous