The head coach of the victorious Golden Eaglets, Manu Garba, has said that the ability of the Golden Eaglets to score goals was down to the activities of the coaching crew which had experienced and high calibre coaches.

According to Manu, the experienced coaching crew had sold the philosophy of total attacking football to the players, who in turn replicated it on the pitch.

In his words, “When we started recruiting players into this team, the coaching crew wanted players who can score. We had to sell the idea to them that they must know how to score before passing making the grade.

“My task was made easy because I was surrounded by experienced former football stars like Emmanuel Amuneke, a winner of the African footballer of the year award, Nduka Ugbade, the skipper of the first Golden Eaglets that won the first FIFA Under-16 Cup and Emeka Amadi, who was a former goalkeeper of the Flying Eagles.

“With these high caliber coaches working with me, we drilled the players on the technique of scoring and I must tell you that it was a tough and painful experience because these young lads were pushed to the limit and they coped well because they are young.

“They showed us that they had adopted our new philosophy of attacking football by scoring in all their matches. They were now just good at scoring but also good at unsettling the opponents with relentless attack from all wings. They were truly goal-scoring machines and that was why we were confident that we were going to score not just once but three times”, he declared.

The Golden Eaglets have made a world record for the fourth time by winning the world cup after beating Mexico 3-0 in the final held at the Mohamed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

 The team scored 26 goals on the road to winning the Cup, a record feat since the competition started in China in 1985.