The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has stepped up it’s drive to get more players of Nigerian descent eligible for the Super Eagles to switch allegiance to the senior national team of Nigeria.
Head coach of the Nigerian team Jose Peseiro already revealed he will speak with Atalanta defender Caleb Okoli after the World Cup but he isn’t contented with that option. He has given his blessings to the technical department of the NFF to meet with selected players.
To that effect, the technical director of the NFF Austine Eguavoen was in England yesterday to watch Crystal Palace 0-3 loss against Fulham at Selhurts Park, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
His visit we exclusively gathered was to meet with two players who Peseiro believe will be positive additions to his team ahead of the return to competitive football next year. Two players were spoken to by Eguavoen.
The two players are Tosin Adarabiyio of Fulham and Malcolm Eboiwei of Crystal Palace. Both players were unused substitutes during the game but did meet with the NFF technical director who was there for talks on having them start the process of switching to Nigeria.
Details of what were discussed was not made known to us as at the time of filing in this report but it is believed talks were very positive as both players should interest in teaming up with the team. We however have no details on if the duo of Ebere Eze and Michael Olise were also approached yesterday.
The duo of Olise and Eze held talks with erstwhile coach Gernot Rohr but declined to be part of the team despite Eze training with the team in 2017 and Olise getting an invitation one year ago.
