The list of players called up to the senior national team of Nigeria for their World Cup qualifiers games against Lesotho and Zimbabwe respectively will be made public in the next 72 hours, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal.
Head coach of the team Jose Peseiro has trimmed the list of invited players to 23 from his provisional list of 35 players, who were sent invitation letters two weeks ago.
As we exclusively reported last week Bayer Leverkusen winger Nathan Tella has been handed a first time call up to the senior national team of Nigeria, as he survived the trimming down of the list.
He is the only new name in the list that we can confirm has been included in the final squad for the game. We still don’t know if Chuba Akpom of Ajax and Stanley Nwabali of Chippa United who were on the provisional list made the cut.
Meanwhile, Sadiq Umar of LaLiga side Real Sociedad and Chidozie Awaziem of Boavista made the cut for a competitive game for the first time in over a year after returning to the fold during the last international break.
They were both called up as late replacements ahead of the test games against Saudi Arabia and Mozambique respectively.
Mohammed Mowiz Suleiman
