Chelsea defender Tosin Adarabiyio has cleared the air on playing for the senior national team of Nigeria after winning the Europa Conference League with Chelsea, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports.
Tosin was an unused substitute as Chelsea recover from a goal down to trash Real Betis 4-1 in the final. It ended a fantastic season for the Blues who also qualified for the UEFA Champions League by finishing 3rd.
Nigerian journalist Oma Akatugba asked the 27 year old about his international future which has been in the news since 2018 , with Nigeria reportedly keen on adding him to their squad.
Reports were that he initially accepted the offer but later declined saying he will rather wait for his chance with England. Tosin however sought to clear the air.
“Yeah, so both of those pieces of news were pretty false. I’ve never, I’ve never turned down Nigeria and I’ve never had any, any conversations with them to say that I will be going to Nigeria”, he started by saying.
” At the point of last season where there was a little bit of conversation and I told the club, obviously I had to focus on club football. I was in the last year at Fulham and I just wanted to have a solid run at Fulham. And now I’m at Chelsea, it’s my first year, which I wanted to concentrate on again. And I think now is going to be the time that I need to make a decision”, he concluded.
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