Eyeing an Olympic gold, Nigeria's U-23 national team, also known as the Olympic Eagles, thrashed a South Korean Premier League club 4-1 in warm-up, local media reported Thursday.
The match, one of the games that coach Samson Siasia has lined up to fine-tune his armoury for the Beijing Games, saw the Eagles scoring through Victor Obinna Nsofor, Bernard Okorowanta, Victor Anichebe and Solomon Okoronkwo.
The victory came 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.
Siasia saw the game as a morale booster for his team.
The Olympic Eagles will fly into China at the weekend to attune with the environment ahead of their matches against the United States, Netherlands and Japan in Group B.
The Nigerian women's team, Falcons, is in Shenyang, a co-host city to northeast of Beijing. The girls earned their own big morale booster with a 2-2 draw with hosts China over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Nigerian Football Federation President Sani Lulu Abdullahi has reiterated the confidence in the two teams taking part in the Olympic football tournaments.
He said: "We have faith in the ability of the men's team under Samson Siasia and the women's team under Jossy Lad.
"Our players are good enough to dig their feet into the ground against any opponents in the world, and we expect pleasant outcomes in China," he said.
(Xinhua News Agency July 31, 2008)