Super Eagles Captain Ahmed Musa has promised to the tune of N500,000(Five Hundred Thousand Naira) to the Golden U-17 Eaglets for every goal they will score at AFCON, NPFLUpdates reports.
Ahmed Musa, one of the most philanthropic Nigerian athlete promised the junior national team the gift Friday afternoon.
What Ahmed Musa did for the Golden Eaglets
The 30-year-old paid a morale boosting visit to the Nigeria U-17 boys at their Abuja hotel Park View Hotel base. And he was welcomed by the Eaglets and their coaching crews.
Musa is still in Nigeria after honouring a clarion from the senior national team; where he engaged the Wild Dogs of Guinea-Bissau in a double-header AFCON qualifier matches.
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The Super Eagles lost one, and won one out of the two-legged tie. Losing at home through a solo goal by Esperance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne forward Mama Balde. But winning away through a spot-kick by Moses Simon.
Meanwhile, this is not the first time the former Leicester City winger will be exercising his philanthropic nature by giving out money to Junior national teams. Because, recently he gave out a huge sum to the Flamingos during a FIFA U-17 World tournament in India.
And at the last edition of the AFCON in Cameroon, the former Al Nasr winger donated huge amount in dollars for the renovation of a mosque.
This will be second time the Nduka Ugbade Golden Eaglets will entertain a player from the Super Eagles. Leicester City midfielder, Wilfred Ndidi, was the first to visit the team at their Abuja base about a week ago.
The Golden Eaglets will travel to Algeria for the next edition of the AFCON U-17 tournament.
The qualified for the tournament after winning the WAFU B U-17 Championship last year.
They will do battle with Morocco, Zambia and perennial rivals South Africa in the Group B.
The four teams that will make it to the semi-finals, will represent Africa at the upcoming FIFA U-17 W’Cup tournament in Peru.
