SCORENigeria can reveal that at 14 years defender Emmanuel Chukwu from Yak Sports Academy is the youngest player on the 25-man final squad to next month’s U17 AFCON qualifiers, while Samuel Akere is the oldest at 16.
Attacking midfielder Akere, was 16 in February, and he is from G12 Academy of Abuja.
The Football College, who are now based in Port Harcourt, have the most number of players on the final squad, while Ikon Allah Academy from Kaduna have two players.
Other academies represented on the final squad include Imperial Academy, who started out Taiwo Awoniyi, Sporting Royal FC, who sourced Wisdom Ubani, and FC Hearts, who provided the likes of Musa Mohammed, Ifeanyi Matthew, Alhassan Ibrahim and most recently Daniel Francis and Usman Ibrahim ‘Walidi’ to the country’s schoolboys team.
