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Head coach of the National U-23 football team, Malik Jabir has revealed plans to engage other African countries in a round-robin competition ahead of their qualifiers.
The Meteors team has been silent after failing to qualify for London Olympics in 2012 and gold medalist in 2011 All Africa Games but the former Asante Kotoko player believes they will engage some north Africa teams soon in some international friendlies.
Jabir who was speaking on Luv FM’s Sports Avenue disclosed he had been approached by an agent from Europe to play a number of international friendlies with some North African countries who are also about to begin building their Olympic national teams .
“All things being possible later next week we might meet to outline our programme for the year . We also have an agent from Europe who has just contacted me and we are yet to settle down on a few teams that will involve Morocco, Egypt, Libya, and I think Algeria.”He said
Should the friendlies come to fruition, it would be a good starting point for the Meteors to assembly the best of materials to represent the country in future competion Under 23 competition.
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