The head coach of the Nigeria U20 team Ladan Bosso has wasted no time in replacing Sao Paulo of Brazil striker Balogun Azeez who won’t honour the invitation to be a part of the squad for the U20 Africa Cup of Nations.
Balogun was tipped to make the final list of players for the tournament as Bosso seeks more reinforcement in attack, but he has now been forced to do drop the idea as Sao Paulo confirmed he won’t be released due to club commitments.
Bosso has now extended a call to ex Nigeria U17 striker Wisdom Ubani who was also a part of his squad to the last U20 tournament, where the team failed to make it to the U20 World Cup via the Africa Cup of Nations.
Ubani is currently on the books of Lokomotiva in the Croatian first division but was sent on loan to Jarun in the second division for the first half of the season, he scored two goals in 11 matches before his return to Lokomotiva upon the opening of the January transfer window.
He is expected to be in the camp of the team from the 15th of January ahead of their departure to Egypt for the U20 AFCON which will run from 19th February to the 11th of March in Egypt.
Nigeria has been drawn in Group A along with host country Egypt, Mozambique and Senegal. The semi finalist of the tournament will represent Africa at the U20 World Cup.