,,,Defending Champions, North Korea Pummels Puerto Rico 6-0 all in group B.
Less rated Polish U17 women’s football team Saturday at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Rabat Morocco beat the Flamingoes of Nigeria 2-1 in the opening group B game.
Poland had slotted two goals into the Nigerian net first in the 28th minute after Ohunene Sunday had escaped a straight red card for foul play in the box and Wiktoria Skrzupczak (reporting Poland and Russia is hectic because their names look like viable passwords) came forth to score at 33 minutes. Natalia Skrok got an assist from Blanka Zajac to score the 2nd goal in the 65th minute.
Kanyisola Yusuf lobbed a pass to Oluebube Umejiaku who scored for Nigeria in the 79th minute. The Nigerian camp was very sad as news came to them that the Golden Eaglets (the male U17 team) had drawn 1-1 with Ivory Coast to exist from the AFCON qualifiers from WAFU zone for the third straight time.
Poland and Nigeria has never met at this age group level. Poland only qualified once for the mundial in 2024 and was ousted at the quarterfinals. Nigeria has been to the party 8 times, made quarterfinals four times in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2024. Nigeria won Bronze in 2022 after losing semifinal to Columbia 5-6 on penalties after a goalless full time and beat the German Machines also via penalty shootouts 3-2 to win Bronze.
Earlier defending world U17 women’s champions, North Korea in same group B with Nigeria had banged Puerto Rico 6-0. Yu Jong-Htang scored a brace in the 6th and 38th minutes (4th goal) while Kim Won-Sim got her brace the 3rd goal in the 24th minute and 6th goal in the 60th minute.
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Ri Ui-Gyong scored the 2nd goal in the 19th minute and Ri Yun-Rim scored the 5th goal in the 45+1 minute. North Korea pulled out 4 of her star players after the 6th goal to rest them for other matches.
Nigeria will meet Puerto Rico on Tuesday when North Korea will face Poland and next Friday Nigeria will play against North Korea as Puerto Rico meets Poland.
In group A Germany beat Argentina 2-1 while hosts Morocco clipped New Zealand 4-0.
Tomorrow Sunday will be for groups C and D. Canada and Brazil will play tiki-taka flow of football at 4pm in group C while at the same time Japanese women will play high tech football with Zambia. At 7pm it will be Norway versus Ghana also in group C while France and Venezuela will slug it out at the same time in group D.
Eniola Olatunji reporting for Patmos Media Line.
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