Emmanuel Babayaro has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to launch an investigation into the exit of the Flying Eagles from the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland.
Despite starting the tournament impressively with a 4-0 demolition of Qatar, the 2005 runners-up failed to build on the fine start, losing 2-0 to United States before playing a 1-1 stalemate with Ukraine, to qualify for the knockout stage as one of the best third-placed teams.
Aigbogun’s men were then eliminated by Senegal in the Round of 16 of the tournament, losing 2-1 in Lodz on Monday.
Babayaro, who was part of the Nigeria’s 1996 Olympic gold medal-winning team provided stern assessment of the Flying Eagles in the tournament.
“From the beginning, their performance has been poor. Our exit was expected, it was long-coming,” Babayaro told Goal.
“Look at how we qualified in the first instance, apart from the very first game we won and we won against a very poor side, we never beat any other…
