After a two years absence from the senior national team of Nigeria setup Sevilla winger Chidera Ejuke is back in the fold ahead of their AFCON 2025 qualifiers games against Libya, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Ejuke who made his debut for the Nigerian team in 2020 has 8 caps to his name, but was last called up to the team for the friendly game against Algeria which ended 2-1 in favour of the Algerian side. He was an unused substitute in the game.
His last action for Nigeria came in the 2-0 win over Guinea Bissau at the delayed 2021 Africa Cup of Nations which was played in Cameroon on the 19th of January 2022. Since then he has only gotten one call which he didn’t get to play.
However he is hoping to add to his caps for the team in Friday’s AFCON qualifiers against Libya. Largely due to his new found form at Sevilla which earned him a recall to the team.
” It was clear to me that if I play regularly at a certain level I will be back in the team. The past one year after putting behind all my fitness issues has been the best for me in a while. I believe that is how I got another chance, and I hope to play some part on Friday although it’s depending on the decision of the coach”, he told OwnGoalNigeria.com at yesterday’s media session.
