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Nigeria advances to semi final in CAF beach soccer championship

Xinhua, April 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

Nigeria's Super Sand Eagles on Thursday qualified for the semi-finals at the ongoing 2015 CAF Beach Soccer Championship in the Seychelles, defeating Cote D' ivoire 7-6 in the quarter-final encounter.

The game ended 6-6 at the regulation time.

However, Emeka Ogbonna's timely goal in the extra time saved the day for the Sand Eagles.

The team earlier beat Seychelles 10-1 in their opening match and also defeated Egypt 4-1 in the second match.

The Sand Eagles will meet the winner of the Ghana-Senegal match in the final.

At the end of the round robin championship, two top finalists will represent Africa in the 2015 World Cup in Portugal.

The Nigerian team, in 2013 edition of the CAF championship hosted by Morocco, crashed out in the second round. Endite