The Nigeria Under 18 and under 20 men handball national teams are in camp in Lagos ahead of the IHF Trophy Africa Zone 3 Phase which will hold in Ghana later in the month.
The IHF Trophy Africa Zone 3 will hold in Accra, Ghana from February 20 to 24, 2023 Nigeria Under 18 and 20 men team will be defending the title they won last year in the zonal level.
To this end, Coach Emeka Nnamani of the under 18 team and Coach Fidelis Obi of the under 20 team invited eighteen players each for their teams and training is ongoing in earnest ahead of the competition at the Rowe Park Sports Center at Yaba, Lagos.
Tojemarine Academy’s Kareem Farouk, Yusuf Sulaiman of Rima Strikers and Mohammed Mustapha of Confluence Stars are some of the players that makes up the under 18 men national team while Niger United’s John Shagari, Kareem Ajibike of Tojemarine Academy, Joseph Emmanuel of De Defenders and Ojo Olumide of Adidja Handball Club of Benin Republic make up the called players for under 20 men national team.
Nigeria’s under 18 and under 20 men’s team will be playing in a round robin competition in at the 2024 edition IHF Trophy Africa Zone 3 Phase with the under 18 team playing in the Youth category alongside Benin Republic, host Ghana and Togo while the under 20 team face the likes of Benin Republic, Cote’d’voire, Ghana, Liberia and Togo in the Junior category.
The Nigeria teams will begin their campaign on February 20, 2023 as the under 18 team face Benin Republic while the under 20 team play Liberia.
IHF Trophy for men, which is organized by the world handball governing body, International Handball Federation, commences this February and will finish early next year with the InterContinental Phase.
It is a series of twenty tournaments across six continents in which each Continent is divided in a set number of zones based on geographical and competitive criteria.
The winner of each Zone qualifies for the Continental Phase while the winner of each Continental Phase qualifies for the InterContinental Phase of the IHF Trophy to determine the final winner.
The best Youth team in each competitive cycle will also qualify for the following Men’s Youth (U19) World Championship .
Nigeria under 18 men team are the champion of the Youth fIHF Trophy Africa Continental Championship and finished third in the intercontinental phase while the under 20 came second at the Continental phase.
INVITED PLAYERS FOR IHF TROPHY (U18) YOUTHS MEN 2024 AFRICA – ZONE III.
1. KAREEM FARUK (TOJEMARINE ACADEMY)
2. SULAIMAN AZEEZ. (TOJEMARINE ACADEMY)
3. FALOKI CHRISTIAN. (TOJEMARINE ACADEMY)
4. OBABORl SAMUEL. TOJEMARINE. GOAL
5. GANIU ADURAGBEMI. TOJEMARINE
6. AB ATTAHIRU SAHABI. SOKOTO. RIMA — GOALKEEPER.
7. ISYAKA Mustapha TOJEMARINE
8. ALIYU RUFAI TOJEMARINE
9. YUSUF SULAIMAN SOKOTO.
10.MOHAMMED MUSA ROAD SAFETY.
11. IORNGOHOL AMOS BENUE. GOALKEEPER.
12.. MOHAMMED MUSTAPHA CONFLUENCE STARS
13.. SULAIMAN SANI. CONFLUENCE STARS
14. FASHOGBON SULAIMAN. LAGOS. SEASIDERS
15. DAHIRU AMINU. . SOKOTO.
16. ISAAC PAMAM. ADAMAWA.
17. REUBEN ADUMBE. ADAMAWA.
18. IBRAHIM HAYATU. . CORRECTION BOYS.
OFFICIALS.
HEAD COACH NNAMANI JOSEPH EMEKA
ASSISTANT COACH AYO JOSHUA.
INVITED PLAYERS FOR IHF TROPHY (U18) YOUTHS MEN 2024 AFRICA – ZONE III.
1 Shagari John (niger utd. ) 2 Sofeme Christopher niger utd. 3 Sunday marhew niger utd. 4 lawal T, Ahmed. Correction boys. 5 Opaluwa j, Ajogwu confluence stars.
6 Ughojor B, Obaro Tojemarine Lagos.
7 Ajibike Kareem O. Tojemarine Lagos.
8 Mukaila fuad Gbolaham Tojemarine Lagos G/keeper. 9 Kuti James Akorede Tojemarine Lagos.
10. Yusuf Farouk (Club Balonmano Granollers)
11 Akani Basit olayinka
12 Joseph Emmanuel Defense shooters. G/keeper.
13.Abubakar Abdulraham (sokoto Rima)
14 Abubakar Almustapha (sokoto Rima)
15 Shittu Umar (plateau vipers) 16 Ibrahim Yusuf plateau vipers. 17 Ojo olumide oluwagbenga. (Addidja HC Cotonou)
18 Paul Silas (Adamawa utd). G/keeper.
