The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria have won the FIFA World U-17 tournament held in Chile. The Eaglets, who are the entered the tournament as defending champions and favorites to win this tournament were sure footed all through the tournament.
Their record fifth U-17 tournament came after a convincing 2-0 victory over Mali as the impressive Victor Osimhen recorded his tenth goal of the tournament.
The Eaglets were gifted a penalty early in the game and it took the best effort of the Malian shot stopper to keep out Osinachi Ebere’s penalty.
The penalty miss did not come back to haunt the Eaglets as Osimhen opened the scoring in the second half before Bamgboye doubled the lead.
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