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China - The Nigeria female representatives in the Beijing Olympic soccer tournament, Super Falcons, ended their Beijing Olympics campaign on Tuesday with no point from the group phase, scoring only one goal and conceding five.

The team lost to the highly rated Brazilian female team, in the last match of the Group F encounter with the latter coming from behind to win 3-1 against the Nigerian team.

Jorge Barcellos, the Brazil’s female football team coach, heaved a big sigh of relief after the Brazilian goal comeback.

The victory notwithstanding, Barcellos said after the encounter that the African champions made things difficult for his girls, especially the Falcons’ strikers.

China - Nigeria U-23 Olympic soccer team are on the verge of qualification for the next round of the Beijing 2008 Olympic soccer tournament. Two goals from Victor Obinna Nsofor and Victor Anichebe, were enough to get Nigeria on the path of qualification after a goalless draw with Holland in the first match of the preliminaries.

Nsofor scored one goal and set up another for Anichebe as Nigeria beat Japan 2-1 at the Beijing Olympics. The win bolsters Nigeria’s chances of advancing to the quarter-finals.

Japan had a great opportunity in the 9th minute of the encounter, Nigeria’s golkeeper, Vanzekin, had to stretch to turn it away from two arriving defenders.

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Tianjin (China) - Nigeria’s U-23 soccer team files out against Holland in a crunch group tie of the football event as underdogs but coach Samson Siasia is sure his players can stand the big challenge.

He said his team had all it takes to match the star-studded Dutch team on Thursday in Tianjin. As one of its confidence-boosters ahead of today’s match, the Olympic Eagles won a four-nation tourney in Malaysia shortly before moving over to South Korea for the final phase of its preparation for the Games. But despite the fine form the boys displayed at the competition, one of the usually unplanned for sides of competitive football has visited the team.

Korea - The Nigerian Olympic soccer team, the Flying Eagles, in pursuit of the Olympic football gold medal,  yesterday thrashed a Republic of Korea Premier League club 4-1.

The match, one of the games that coach Samson Siasia has lined up to fine-tune his armory for the Beijing Games, saw the Eagles scoring through Victor Obinna Nsofor, Bernard Okorowanta, Victor Anichebe and Solomon Okoronkwo. The victory comes just three days before the team takes the short flight into Beijing, onwards to Tianjin, where it plays in the group phase of the Games at the quadrennial showpiece.