Mavlon FC Abubakar shines in penalties for bronze-winning Flying Eagles by facingsports.blogspot.com

Flying Eagles Of Nigeria. 5th time Bronze winners.

The Flying Eagles of Nigeria were again furtunate in penalty kicks after goalkeeper Rufai Abubakar’s heroic saves guaranteed a bronze medal win for Nigeria at the expense of Egypt, the host of the AFCON U20 tournament, reports www.totorinews.com. 

Abububar, who nurtures his football with Mavlon FC of Lagos never tested action in the tournament until he replaced goalkeeper Yakub in the dying minutes of the game, before the centre referee signalled the end of 90 minutes and straight to penalties.

The introduction of Abubakar by the technical crew of the Flying Eagles led by Aliyu Zubairu proved to be a master stroke strategy, as the former Golden Eagles rose to the occassion to save two penalty kicks from Egypt, while his teammates were very clinical scoring all the four penalty kicks to make sure that Nigeria did not leave Egypy empty- handed.

Abubakar demonstrated strong composture and confidence to deny  Egypt despite the noise coming from their fans to distract him.

It was the fifth time the Flying Eagles will be winning bronze medal at the AFCON U 20 tournament. Nigeria is seventh time winners of the tournament and came second twice.

Published by Sunday Onuchukwu Osunkwo an International Sports Journalist based in the United States. 

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