The U23 team of Germany has as reported by this portal named the German-Nigerian duo of Felix Uduokhai and Jordan Torunarigha in their squad for the football event of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
The games was postponed to this year due to the coronavirus pandemic and the duo were expected to be a part of the team but an indifferent run of form has led to talks of one of them missing out on the final selection.
However coach of the German team Stefan Kuntz has picked both players in his squad of 22 players for the tournament in a list that has all players playing in Germany bar Gent’s Niklas Dorsch.
Their inclusion will no doubt come as a blow to coach of the Nigerian team Gernot Rohr who was hoping to have both players cleared before the start of the World Cup 2022 qualifiers.
Last year, the coach said the duo will likely switch to Nigeria after their involvement with the U23 of Germany at the Olympics even though Augsburg’s Uduokhai ended up getting a call up to the senior team of Germany.
Hertha Berlin Torunarigha confirmed he had talks with representatives of the senior national team of Nigeria in 2018 but decided to continue playing for Germany, shunning the chance of playing at the World Cup with Nigeria that year.
He was however out of the U23 picture for a while and it led to talks of a potential switch to Nigeria but that now is on hold following his inclusion in the list of 22 players for the Olympics.
