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Nigeria national under-20 football team
Flying Eagles

The Nigeria men's national under-20 football team, also known as the Nigeria Under-20s or nicknamed the Flying Eagles, is the youth team for national soccer in Nigeria. It plays a large role in the development of Nigerian football, and is considered to be the feeder team for the senior team. It is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation.

Nigeria Under-20
Nickname: Flying Eagles
AssociationNigeria Football Association
ConfederationCAF (Africa)
Head coachPaul Aigbogun
Home stadiumAbuja Stadium
FIFA codeNGA


Africa U-20 Cup of Nations
Appearances17 (first in 1978–79)
Best result Champions
(1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 2005, 2011, 2015)


FIFA U-20 World Cup
Appearances11 (first in 1981)
Best resultRunners-up
(1989, 2005)

Lalasticlala, mynd44
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria_national_under-20_football_team

Definitely it is the 2005 sets of Champions coached by Samson Siasia.
The team had so much talented players like;

Ambrose Vanzekin
Kennedy Chinwo
Taye Taiwo( That sweet left foot nigga)
Onyekachi Apam
Monday James
Chinedu Obasi Ogbuke
Daddy Bazuaye
Isaac Promise (Captain)
Daniel Akpeyi (Always a second choice)
Solomon Okoronkwo (Very Skillful)
John Owoeri (My favorite, the goal getter)
Dele Adeleye
Late Olubayo Adefemi (Good defender)
John Obi Mikel (The Jewel of the team)
Sani Keita (Lol )

Those guys brought joy to Nigerians and Africa. I will never forget the Morocco match.

Flying Eagles of Nigeria Create Football History at Saudi Arabia 1989




At the 1989 World Youth Championship held in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria picked the Silver medal, after defeating USSR in the most pulsating semi final matches ever played in the history of the FIFA U-20 championship.

The Flying Eagles first game was against the host Country, and they defeated Saudi Arabia 2-1 with Midfielder Mutiu Adepoju and Striker Christopher Ohenhen getting the two vital goals for Nigeria. The next game was against Portugal, and it went against the expectation of the Coach Tunde Disu led Boys, who got whacked 1-0 by a strong Portuguese team. The Flying Eagles were however able to secure a quarterfinal ticket after securing a 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia in their final group game. Christopher Ohenhen once again rescued a point for Nigeria by scoring the decisive equalizer in the 72nd minutes of play.

The quarterfinal game saw the Flying Eagles been paired with USSR.

The game was played in Dammam, and was later re-named "the miracle of Dammam".

This was a game that saw Nigeria trailing by 4-0 with few minutes to the end of the decisive quarterfinal match. Legendary Oleg Salenko of USSR was among the scorers in that memorable match. In the space of 30 minutes, Nigeria fought back to equalize 4-4 and take the match into penalty shoot-out. The comeback was started by star player- Christopher Ohenhen who scored a brace in the 61st and 75th minutes to bring scores to 4-2 with 15 minutes of play left in regulation time. Samuel Elijah, who was later nicknamed "Prophet" Samuel Elijah scored in the 83rd minutes of play reduce the tally to 4-3, before inspirational captain Nduka Ugbade came from nowhere to level score 4-4 with an incredible equalizer in the 84th minutes. The Russians were stunned beyond their imagination. The match had to go into penalties after the expiration of 90 minutes, and the Nigerians triumph 5-3, after Mirdjalal Kasimov missed his spot kick to bring the game to an anti climax. It was the greatest come back in the history of world football till date.

In the semi finals, the Flying Eagles narrowly defeated USA 2-1 after the game had to go into another extra time with the games tied at 1-1 in regulation time. Mutiu Adepoju who later became an integral part of the Super Eagles of Nigeria scored both goals that eliminated USA from the tournament. In goal for USA on that memorable day, was goalkeeper Kasey Keller who later became a household name in world football.

It was a tired looking Flying Eagles team that qualified for the Final of the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship, after playing two successive games that went into penalty shoot-out. This was to prove decisive, as the Flying Eagles were defeated 2-0 by Portugal, who had earlier beaten them 1-0 at the group stage.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Flying-Eagles-of-Nigeria-Create-Football-History-at-Saudi-Arabia-1989&id=5161867

Fying eagles 20 worl cup history in numbers.

0-  The number of titles won by Nigeria at this championship.


1-  The number of times Nigeria hosted the Fifa U20 World Cup. This was achieved in 1999 as the Flying Eagles finished eighth after they were bundled out of the quarter final by Mali at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu. They became the second African country to host this tourney after Tunisia staged it in 1977.


3-   Brazil, Portugal and Soviet Union are the countries to have faced Nigeria at this level of competition on the most occasions. The Flying Eagles met Brazil in 1983 (lost 0-3), 1987 (lost 0-4) and in 2005 (drew 0-0). For the Portuguese, the Flying Eagles played them first in the group stage of the 1989 edition as Paulo Alves’s strike in the 88th minute caged them at the Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh. They met again in the final and the Europeans triumphed 2-0 with Abel Silva and Jorge Couto getting on the scorers’ sheet. Their third meeting ended in a 3-2 defeat of Nigeria at the 2013 edition in Turkey. Soviet Union have also met Nigeria thrice; 1983 (Nigeria won 1-0), 1985 (lost 2-1) and the last time known as the ‘Miracle of Daman’ where the Flying Eagles came from four goals down to beat the Europeans 5-3 on penalties.

3- Least number of goals conceded by Nigeria in a tournament, this feat was achieved at the Mexico 1983 edition. Unfortunately, Christopher Udemezue’s team did not make this impressive record count as they failed to get past the group stage which had eventual winners, Brazil.

3- This number also marks the most goals scored by a Nigerian in a single tournament. This honour is shared by Odiaka Monday (1985), Mutiu Adepoju & Christopher Ohenhen (1989), Chinedu Obasi (2005), Edafe Egbedi, Olarenwaju Kayode & Ahmed Musa (2011) and Abdul Jeleel Ajagun (2013).

                                   Mikel against Argentina in the final of Netherlands 2005

5- This represents the most goals scored in a single match by Nigeria at the mundial. In Egypt 2009, the    Flying Eagles spanked Tahiti 5-0 in the group stage. While at Colombia 2011, Guatemala lost 5-0 and Croatia 5-2 to Nigeria.

9- The number of times Nigeria have failed to qualify for the tournament. Their first black-out was at the edition staged in Tunisia in 1977 followed by their absence in Japan 1979 before missing out of Australia (1981), Portugal (1991), Australia (1993), Qatar (1995), Malaysia (1997), Argentina (2001) and United Arab Emirates (2003) respectively.


14- The number of seconds it took Monday Odiaka to score the fastest goal in Fifa U20 World Cup history against Canada in 1985. His compatriot John Owoeri netted the second-quickest, four seconds shy of the record, against the Netherlands in 2005.
             
Peter Ogaba is the youngest-ever Nigerian to have represented the country in this competition at 14 years and five months which was achieved at the Saudi Arabia-hosted tournament in 1989.
 
                        


15- Most goals scored in a tournament. This was achieved at the Colombia 2011 championship where John Obuh’s side ran riot against all opposing teams but were shown the exit door in the quarter final after bowing 3-2 to France after extra time. Whereas at Mexico 1983, Nigeria recorded their least number of goals with one goal in three games. It came off the boot of Tarila Okoronwata in Nigeria’s 1-0 defeat of the Soviet Union.

                             
  20- The number of games Nigeria have won in 10 Fifa U20 World Cup tournaments, a record among African teams. On the other hand, they have lost 18 matches while they have secured a draw 11 times.
  39 - The number of games Nigeria have played at Fifa U20 World Cups, making them the highest playing African side in the history of the competition.
 70-  The total number of goals Nigeria have scored in all Fifa World U20 championships they have participated in. Little wonder they are one of the highest scoring sides in the history of the competition. Also, they have conceded 61 goals in the same number of outings.
77,000- This is the record number of spectators to watch a Flying Eagles game in the World Cup. This was set on March 3, 1989 in Nigeria’s 2-0 defeat to Portugal in the final. The Europeans won by goals scored by Abel Silva and Jorge Couto.

Dukpe219sad:
Hi

stop derailing every thread with your fake tickets. Sell your games to your pop

JasonScoolari:
Definitely it is the 2005 sets of Champions coached by Samson Siasia.
The team had so much talented players like;

Ambrose Vanzekin
Kennedy Chinwo
Taye Taiwo( That sweet left foot nigga)
Onyekachi Apam
Monday James
Chinedu Obasi Ogbuke
Daddy Bazuaye
Isaac Promise (Captain)
Daniel Akpeyi (Always a second choice)
Solomon Okoronkwo (Very Skillful)
John Owoeri (My favorite, the goal getter)
Dele Adeleye
Late Olubayo Adefemi (Good defender)
John Obi Mikel (The Jewel of the team)
Sani Keita (Lol )

Those guys brought joy to Nigerians and Africa. I will never forget the Morocco match.

Omo this 2005 team was a bomb

The Real Mikel obi
And the thunder od Taye Taiwo

robosky02:
Omo this 2005 team was a bomb

The Real Mikel obi
And the thunder od Taye Taiwo

Lol, I swear. But I love the super sub John Owoeri and Vanzekin more.

Can we reproduce this guys..

JasonScoolari:
Lol, I swear. But I love the super sub John Owoeri and Vanzekin more.

Yea
The man with the fastest goal

robosky02:
Yea
The man with the fastest goal

Inconsistency and false age declarations keeps dragging us back.

Where's is Owoeri, Ogbuke, Stanley Okoro, Chibuzo Okoronkwo, Solomon Okoronkwo, Isaac Promise and Vanzekin today?

2011 class that produced ahmed musa
Copy :dominique

JasonScoolari:
Inconsistency and false age declarations keeps dragging us back.

Where's is Owoeri, Ogbuke, Stanley Okoro, Chibuzo Okoronkwo, Solomon Okoronkwo, Isaac Promise and Vanzekin today?

Stanley Okoro, like chrisantus

Let's go there